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

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 ...

We use facial expression to help recall an emotion, researchers say. A new study shows that in order to recall an emotion (positive or negative) we “re-enact” the motor sequence of the facial ...

If you were to travel anywhere in the globe -- even to visit remote tribes who have scant contact with the larger world -- would people be able to read your emotions from your facial expressions ...

Do people from different cultures express emotions differently? A new paper says yes: Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. But as far as I can see the data show that at least ...

Emotions give us clues about how to respond to things happening in our environment: Is he dangerous? Does she love me? Can I trust him? But can we trust our perceptions as we travel around the globe?

Facial expressions of emotion are hardwired into our genes, according to a new study. The research suggests that facial expressions of emotion are innate rather than a product of cultural learning.

That cartoon scary face – wide eyes, ready to run – may have helped our primate ancestors survive in a dangerous wild, according to the authors of an article published in Current Directions in ...