You prepared thoroughly for a presentation at work, and now you’re dropping wisdom to a packed room. Much as you expected, your colleagues appear wowed and ...

Sometimes, you can tell a *lot* about what a person is thinking just by the look on their face. The ability to understand facial expressions is an important part of nonverbal communication. If you ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

W e all subtly mirror the facial expressions of the people around us, smiling when they smile, furrowing our brows in concert ...

Conducting short workshops on reading facial expressions can improve a physician’s interpretation of a patient’s emotions, which could potentially increase patient satisfaction, according to a recent ...

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

After a rough night's sleep, your ability to recognize whether those around you are happy or sad could suffer, according to a study led by a University of Arizona psychologist. The research, published ...

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

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