Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

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 ...

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, ...

Women’s real human faces are showing up on screen more often. I’d like to officially declare the dawn of a new era.

Imagine sitting across from someone describing two movies to you. You listen attentively, trying to decide which one ...

When I started horse riding lessons at the age of eight, I was told that if a horse had its ears forward that was a good sign, and if horse had its ears back it wasn't happy. Those riding lessons ...