News tagged with emotional expressions


Wide-eyed fear expressions may help us—and others—to locate threats

Wide-eyed expressions that typically signal fear may enlarge our visual field and mutually enhance others' ability to locate threats, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Ps ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing happiness in ambiguous facial expressions reduces aggressive behaviour, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Don't read my lips! Body language trumps the face for conveying intense emotions

Be it triumph or crushing defeat, exhilaration or agony, body language more accurately conveys intense emotions, according to recent research that challenges the predominance of facial expressions as an indicator of how a ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Body language, not facial expressions, broadcasts what's happening to us

If you think that you can judge by examining someone's facial expressions if he has just hit the jackpot in the lottery or lost everything in the stock market—think again. Researchers at the Hebrew University ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Fostering independence and life skills: For children with developmental disabilities, parenting style matters

(Medical Xpress)—Positive parenting can be particularly effective in helping young children with developmental disabilities become more independent and cooperative, a Brigham Young University study found.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The knowing nose: Chemosignals communicate human emotions

(Medical Xpress)—Many animal species transmit information via chemical signals, but the extent to which these chemosignals play a role in human communication is unclear. In a new study published in Psychological Science, a jour ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 05, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tone-deaf people may also have limited ability to detect emotional cues in speech, study finds

A new study has revealed that those with congenital amusia (commonly refereed to as tone-deafness) have trouble decoding emotions in speech and find it hard to pick up on emotional cues in conversation.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research reveals more about how the brain processes facial expressions and emotions

Research released today helps reveal how human and primate brains process and interpret facial expressions, and the role of facial mimicry in everything from deciphering an unclear smile to establishing relationships of power ...

Neuroscience created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Compassion meditation may boost neural basis of empathy, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—A compassion-based meditation program can significantly improve a person's ability to read the facial expressions of others, finds a study published by Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 04, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pacifiers may have emotional consequences for boys

Pacifiers may stunt the emotional development of baby boys by robbing them of the opportunity to try on facial expressions during infancy.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

All eyes on new writing device for the disabled

A French researcher has built a device allowing disabled people to write or draw on a computer screen using only their eyes, a report said Thursday.

Medical research created Jul 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Feeling strong emotions makes peoples' brains 'tick together'

Experiencing strong emotions synchronises brain activity across individuals, research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland has revealed.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Your left side is your best side

Your best side may be your left cheek, according to a new study by Kelsey Blackburn and James Schirillo from Wake Forest University in the US. Their work shows that images of the left side of the face are perceived and rated ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Children at risk for schizophrenia show disordered brain networks

A team of neuroscientists led by a Wayne State University School of Medicine professor has discovered stark developmental differences in brain network function in children of parents with schizophrenia when compared to those ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

90 percent of firefighters exhibit symptoms of PTSD: researchers

A new study on the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among firefighters in Israel indicates that approximately 90 percent show some form of full or partial symptoms.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0