Understanding body language and facial expressions begins with looking at patterns of nonverbal signals rather than focusing on a single gesture. Posture, eye contact, facial movements, and tone of ...

On the reality television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition*,* the lucky recipient gets a first look at his newly renovated home. For a split second, his face contorts with—shock? Joy? During ...

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 ...

“Ekman’s system is very widespread, and represents a standard in psychological emotion research,” says Dr. Martin Steppan, a psychologist at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel.

University of Miami Psychology Professor Daniel Messinger collaborated with researchers at Western University in Canada to show that our brains are pre-wired to perceive wrinkles around the eyes as ...