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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Participants were shown 110 pictures of faces and asked to identify the facial expression represented by each picture (happy, sad, anger, fear, surprise, disgust and a neutral expression.) ...

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 ...

Pleasure, disgust, fear -- the facial expressions that reflect these emotions are the same in every human. For example, if we are disgusted by something, our eyes become narrower, our nose ...

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 ...

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