You prepared thoroughly for a presentation at work, and now you’re dropping wisdom to a packed room. Much as you expected, your colleagues appear wowed and ...

Sometimes, you can tell a *lot* about what a person is thinking just by the look on their face. The ability to understand facial expressions is an important part of nonverbal communication. If you ...

Conducting short workshops on reading facial expressions can improve a physician’s interpretation of a patient’s emotions, which could potentially increase patient satisfaction, according to a recent ...

A study challenges the long-held view that facial mimicry functions primarily as a social tool for politeness or empathy, ...

After a rough night's sleep, your ability to recognize whether those around you are happy or sad could suffer, according to a study led by a University of Arizona psychologist. The research, published ...

A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi University of Technology has found that approach–avoidance behavior in a virtual ...

A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi University of Technology has found that approach–avoidance behavior in a virtual ...

I am tired of studying Donald Trump’s facial expressions, but I can’t help myself. People keep asking me for my scientific opinion of Trump’s facial expressions. That’s a tall order. I do anatomically ...

In a recent study published in the journal Informatics, researchers investigated the use of advanced machine learning methods to recognize facial expressions as indicators of health deterioration in ...

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