New research shows facial expressions are planned by the brain before movement, not automatic emotional reactions.

New research suggests that the emotional content of a facial expression influences how well observers can predict social ...

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 ...

Researchers found that autistic and non-autistic people move their faces differently when expressing emotions like anger, ...

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

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 ...

Autistic and non-autistic people express emotions differently through their facial movements, according to a new study, which ...

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

The belief that all humans communicate six basic emotions through their facial expressions has been refuted by researchers at the University of Glasgow. It was Charles Darwin who first noted in his ...

Mice display different facial expressions depending on their mood, say researchers writing in Science, who found pleasure, disgust, nausea, pain and fear all provoke different reactions in the rodents ...

Do you find it difficult to choose the perfect smiley-face emoji when trying to convey happy emotions in a text message? Although many emojis look very similar, it seems there are countless slightly ...

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 ...