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

It’s intentionally sending a signal that it’s pissed off, so beware ...

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

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

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

"This is my life, and I'm gonna be angry if I want to." ...

Cats can use hundreds of facial expressions to communicate, a new study reveals. Over the course of a year, researchers recorded a total of 276 distinct facial expressions used among a colony of 50 ...

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

Humans are social beings, hardwired to navigate complex interactions through signals that communicate our internal states. Of all the channels we use to perceive emotion, the human face is arguably ...

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...