Drawing cues from someone’s facial expression might be a wrong approach to conclude about people’s feelings as new research suggests that facial expressions might not be reliable indicators of emotion ...

Facial expressions offer potent displays of emotions and to a large extent are universally understood. Yet the social context or framing around an expression is important and can color how we ...

We use our faces to communicate, but our facial expressions may not always come across the way we think they do. And we may be just as wrong when reading the faces of others, a study says. "Many ...

If you were to travel anywhere in the globe -- even to visit remote tribes who have scant contact with the larger world -- would people be able to read your emotions from your facial expressions ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! So there’s no such thing as a basic emotion? It sounds crazy. But this is where all ...

If you look at someone with a smile, you know that they are happy, and if they are crying, they are sad. From such an idea, in 2015, In response to the question 'is it possible to detect emotions from ...

Facial expressions of emotion are hardwired into our genes, according to a new study. The research suggests that facial expressions of emotion are innate rather than a product of cultural learning.

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 ...

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 ...

Forty-six years ago a young San Francisco–based cowboy of a psychologist named Paul Ekman emerged from the jungle with proof of a powerful idea. During the previous couple of years, he had set out ...