Facial expressions may appear spontaneous, but new research shows the brain begins preparing them long before the face ...

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

Annie Särnblad trains people to read microexpressions using a simple and systematic methodology. She’s spent 25 years living in nine countries and studying eight languages. Särnblad shares five ...

Facial mimicry refers to automatic copying of another person’s facial expressions. When one person smiles, a listener may ...

Human faces pop up on a screen, hundreds of them, one after another. Some have their eyes stretched wide, others show lips clenched. Some have eyes squeezed shut, cheeks lifted and mouths agape. For ...

If you smiled at someone and they didn't smile back, you'd probably find it off-putting. Well, that's what usually happens if you smile at a humanoid robot … but not in the case of the ...