Psychology research suggests that the human body, particularly the muscles on our face, plays a key part in the processing of others' emotions. For instance, past findings suggest that when we see ...

A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi University of Technology investigated how facial expressions are perceived when ...

Facial expressions of emotion—such as the joyful smile you might display when encountering a friend or your angry frown when being cut off in traffic—are powerful social signals that are able to evoke ...

This past holiday season when students watched their relatives opening presents, they looked at more than just their faces to gauge their reactions, according to University psychology professor ...

A new study challenges the longstanding belief that fear is primarily communicated through facial expressions, showing instead that context plays the dominant role in real-life fear recognition. By ...

A teary eye, a furrowed eyebrow, creases at the edge of the eye tell us what a person is feeling without them having to express it with words. New data indicate that eyes might be the window to the ...