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.

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 ...

Remarkably, the opposite facial expression to fear turned out to be very much like disgust, and vice versa, even to the eyes of impartial observers.

For centuries, we’ve believed that facial expressions mirror our innermost emotions. But recent research has found that may be far from the truth. While conducting research on emotions and ...

SM cannot recognize fear from facial expressions 5, and Adolphs et al. show that this is because she fails to look spontaneously towards the eyes on a face.

Ahead, they’ll walk us through 15 common facial expressions dogs can make—and what they’re trying to tell us. Get Reader’s Digest ’s Read Up newsletter for more pets, cleaning, humor ...

Facial Expression Recognition Software Developed Date: February 25, 2008 Source: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Summary: Researchers have developed an algorithm that is capable of processing ...

Jack’s results don’t mean that people from east Asian countries are blind to facial expressions of fear and disgust, but that there may be a different way for these signals to be conveyed.

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

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 ...

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