Lisa Feldman Barrett’s recent essay in The New York Times, “What Faces Can’t Tell Us,” seeks to undermine the science showing universality in the interpretation of facial expressions. In her eyes, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Bursts of joy, gestures of sympathy and many other spontaneous expressions of emotion can come in a variety of guises. However, when it comes to expressing disapproval or ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...

Do your facial movements broadcast your emotions to other people? If you think the answer is yes, think again. This question is under contentious debate. Some experts maintain that people around the ...

Whether at a birthday party in Brazil, a funeral in Kenya, or protests in Hong Kong, humans all use variations of the same facial expressions in similar social contexts, such as smiles, frowns, ...

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 ...

Connor Tom Keating receives funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC). Jennifer Cook has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In business and in life, it doesn’t matter what language you speak, where you live, what you do for a living–the facial expressions you ...