Could you predict the juror’s opinion just by observing his facial expressions?Or suppose you’re talking to someone who suddenly stops smiling. His eyebrows pull together, eyes narrow slightly, and ...

Previous posts in this series have considered emotional education and emotional competence, how they are based upon emotional communication during development, and how miscommunication can undermine a ...

Digital communication has undergone rapid transformation in recent decades, with emojis emerging as a pervasive tool for conveying emotional nuance and enhancing interpersonal exchanges. Initially ...

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

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

When we communicate, we use more than just words. The way we stand or sit, the way we gesture, and even the pitch of our voice help contribute to our message. A famous researcher of body language, ...

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, ...