This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at the picture above. Do you think the ...

We use our faces to communicate, but our facial expressions may not always come across the way we think they do. And we may be just as wrong when reading the faces of others, a study says. "Many ...

What many men were taught growing up may now be quietly sabotaging their ability to build meaningful connections.

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

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, ...

Imagine watching a video of a chimpanzee. The ape pulls its lips back in a wide, playful grin. Without realizing it, the ...

If you were to travel anywhere in the globe -- even to visit remote tribes who have scant contact with the larger world -- would people be able to read your emotions from your facial expressions ...

Emotions give us clues about how to respond to things happening in our environment: Is he dangerous? Does she love me? Can I trust him? But can we trust our perceptions as we travel around the globe?