New Facial Expression of Emotion?

HealthCanal.com purports that new research suggests that there is a facial expression for anxiety. Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the study focused on the facial expression of the emotion of anxiety and claims to have found the facial characteristics that are connected to the display of that emotion. The research, conducted…

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Language and Emotions

Researchers at the MPI for Psycholinguistics and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology have set out to answer the question, does our understanding of emotions depend on the language we speak, or is our perception the same regardless of language and culture? ScienceDaily reports on Understanding Emotions without Language. This new study, which suggests that emotions…

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Charles Darwin and Emotions

As The Irondequoit Post reports, nearly 150 years ago Charles Darwin used photographs to study how humans use their face to show emotions. Today researchers at Cambridge University use the power of the internet, videos and the technology of the 21st century to update Charles Darwin’s experiments. They believe the results could help them develop…

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Perception Variation?

The seven basic facial expressions of emotion can be dubbed the world’s universal language.  Numerous scientific studies have qualified the fact that facial expressions are innate human behaviors, so they do not differ across cultures. Eureka Alert has just reported that there is a new study that examines how people from divergent cultural backgrounds, particularly…

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