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

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

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

Researchers used an algorithm to allow people to refine what they thought the facial expression of a particular emotion should look like. The results show profound individual differences, suggesting ...

Facial expressions are central to social life, yet scientists still don’t fully understand how the brain produces them. To ...

Autistic and non-autistic people express emotions differently through their facial movements, according to a new study, which may help to explain why ...