If you were pouring your heart out about a serious problem and the person listening remained expressionless the whole time, ...

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The face reflects a person's emotional state. The interpretation of facial expressions as part of psychotherapy or psychotherapeutic research, for example, is an effective way of characterizing how a ...

Do people from different cultures express emotions differently? A new paper says yes: Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. But as far as I can see the data show that at least ...

Cross-cultural research suggests that there are about half a dozen basic facial expressions in humans, such as happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, anger, and disgust. Around the world, people are very ...

Grimaces, scowls and doting gazes of ancient human sculptures indicate that there are universal facial expressions that signal the same emotions across cultures, researchers argue. Faces depicted in ...

While the muscles for making basic facial expressions are standard issue, some people have extra equipment, according to a study led by psychologist Bridget Waller of the Centre for the Study of ...