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 ...

You don’t have to be Jim Carrey to recognize that the human face is amazingly elastic and expressive. We can squint, flare our nostrils, purse our lips-yeah, it’s a lengthy list, and all of those ...

Love, pain, joy, fear, desire: the full spectrum of emotion resides in facial expression. We grasp this almost intuitively.

Want to know what expressions people in Papua New Guinea or Siberia use most? Look in the mirror. A study making waves this week in Nature finds that people around the world show emotion on their ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at the picture above. Do you think the ...

New research titled "identifying a facial expression of flirtation and its effect on men" deconstructs the morphology of highly-recognized flirtatious facial expressions used by heterosexual women to ...