Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...
When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...
Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Klaus Vedfelt—Getty Images, Tim Robberts—Getty Images, Kelvin Murray—Getty Images, Robert Recker—Getty Images, Howard Kingsnorth—Getty ...
Ever since I returned to in-person school in the fall, I had quickly noticed the diverse expressions people were able to convey through their eyes and nearby facial muscles. The most prevalent ...
The most popular questions we receive at the Paul Ekman Group are questions relating to which courses and universities are best equipped to promote a career in becoming an expert in facial expressions ...
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, ...
A facial expression expert has revealed the best way that someone can spot a psychopath by simply spotting how their face falls when they're not being expressive. In a viral TikTok video, Annie ...
The purrs and meows we all know and expect from our feline friends are known to be communicative to humans. But how do cats interact with each other? By way of nearly 300 different facial expressions, ...