Technology now allows the creation of increasingly realistic AI agents. Human-like AI agents—such as the digital characters ...

From a very young age, infants have a way of making their feelings known – contorted faces and howls indicate their displeasure with a meal or a damp diaper, a gummy smile their contentment, and a ...

Micro-expressions that last less than a fraction of a second expose a person's true emotions and intent towards you.

You prepared thoroughly for a presentation at work, and now you’re dropping wisdom to a packed room. Much as you expected, your colleagues appear wowed and ...

A study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience says that facial expressions — such as a frown of disgust — may actually have a purpose that goes beyond simple communication. It's MORNING EDITION ...

Whether at a birthday party in Brazil, a funeral in Kenya, or protests in Hong Kong, humans all use variations of the same facial expressions in similar social contexts, such as smiles, frowns, ...

Autism researchers are starting to think that autistic and non-autistic faces may “speak a different language” when conveying emotion. This could mean the “social difficulties” often associated with ...

This 1936 portrait by Dorothea Lange shows Florence Owens Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." Source: Dorothea Lange/Public Domain Photographers and ...

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 facial ...

Human faces are arguably the most important things we see. We are quick to detect them in any scene, and they command our attention. Faces express a wealth of important social information, such as ...