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, ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the emotional content of a facial expression influences how well observers can predict social ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

Mlodinow, a theoretical physicist and former faculty member of the California Institute of Technology, is the author of Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking, among many other books. In September ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

The rise of emoji culture signals a significant shift in how we express emotions. These small, colorful symbols have evolved from simple digital accessories to become primary vehicles for emotional ...

The film Black Swan (2010) is the journey of a dancer seeking perfection. However, this leads her to dance a downward spiral, in which reality becomes increasingly distorted. The concept of reality is ...

The keywords assigned to papers by authors in the field of affective computing were analyzed for frequency and co-occurrence, and the core keywords among them were clustered to get five clusters.