Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

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Lauren Dawson is a postdoctoral fellow of Animal Biosciences at the University of Guelph. This story originally featured on The Conversation. Cats are popular pets: There are an estimated 200 million ...

ARISTOTLE RECKONED the face was a window onto a person’s mind. Cicero agreed. Two millennia on, facial expressions are still commonly thought to be a universally valid way to gauge other people’s ...

New work demonstrates how neural circuits in the brain and muscles of the face work together to respond physically to social cues When a baby smiles at you, it’s almost impossible not to smile back.

Recognizingfacial expressions is something that we do naturally, without anythought. However, whenever we smile or frown, or express any numberof emotions using our faces, we move a large number of ...

Lisa Feldman Barrett’s recent essay in The New York Times, “What Faces Can’t Tell Us,” seeks to undermine the science showing universality in the interpretation of facial expressions. In her eyes, ...