Those fleeting facial expressions that flash across someone's face for just milliseconds might be revealing what their warm ...

Smiles do more than express emotion - new research shows they can unconsciously influence trust and shape how we perceive ...

A study by scientists from the University of the Southwest Pacific Network and Humboldt University of Berlin has shown that ...

In social situations, humans often copy the facial expressions of others who they are interacting with. This phenomenon, ...

How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out that we are more likely to mimic people who express joy, and we perceive those ...

In our increasingly digital world, the emergence of applications designed to detect and track micro-expressions is gaining momentum. These innovative tools have the potential to radically transform ...

What if the emotions we think we see aren’t really there? Neuroscience reveals how culture shapes what we feel—and how easily ...

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...