An image showing four different facial expressions (clockwise from top-left: fear, disgust, sadness, happiness). Overlaid on top of each expression is a set of vectors (arrows) indicating how the ...

Fear expression form. Although facial expressions convey distinct emotional states 7, expressions are not structurally independent, containing systematic relations in their appearance 26,27.As ...

People may indeed widen their eyes and gasp in fear, but they may also scowl in fear, cry in fear, laugh in the face of fear and, in some cultures, even fall asleep in fear. There is no essence.

Our faces are exquisitely capable of a vast range of expressions, such as showing fear to send signals of alarm, interest to draw others toward an opportunity, or fondness and kindness to increase ...

Facial expressions may be an unreliable way to read emotions. People don’t always accurately understand when faces are meant to convey such feelings as happiness, anger, fear or sadness, study says ...

Everyone smiles in the same language, right? For decades, psychologists have backed up the idea that facial expressions are universal. Paul Ekman’s research in the 1960s was a driving force behind ...

Despite our intuitions, we all experience fear differently and for different reasons. Here's what science says about why that is.