This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at the picture above. Do you think the ...

Despite the injunction "Don't judge a book by its cover," considerable research demonstrates that people have a strong tendency to use facial appearance when forming first impressions of others' ...

“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.” —Cicero The breadth of emotions that our eyes are able to express is truly far-reaching. From joy to longing, from anger to fear, ...

Peking University, August 4, 2025: Why do young children often miss the emotions behind adult expressions? A pioneering study led by researcher Xie Wanze from Peking University’s School of ...

New research suggests that women have a tendency to attribute more hostility to other women's faces than is actually present or intended. The notion of “resting bitch face," or the tendency for a ...

A new study reports that processing of negative emotion can be strengthened or weakened by tuning the excitability of the right frontal part of the brain. A new study published in Biological ...

There are millions of botulinum toxin (botox) treatments performed, mostly on women, around the world every year. And this sort of cosmetic intervention may have side effects — ones that go beyond the ...

Popular knowledge and scientific research have perpetuated the belief that the face a person makes when they orgasm is the same one they make when they’re in pain. To social psychologist Jose-Miguel ...