News tagged with happy faces


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

Study shows attractiveness of people not dependent on facial expression

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth have conducted a study with the aim of attempting to discern if the attractiveness of a person's face is impacted by facial expression. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

How do happiness and sadness circuits contribute to bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder is a severe mood disorder characterized by unpredictable and dramatic mood swings between the highs of mania and lows of depression. These mood episodes occur among periods of 'normal mood', termed euthymia.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

High blood pressure may lead to missed emotional cues

Your ability to recognize emotional content in faces and texts is linked to your blood pressure, according to a Clemson University researcher.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The secret to successful aging

Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Who's happy? How long we look at happy faces is in our genes

Though we all depend on reading people's faces, each of us sees others' faces a bit differently. Some of us may gaze deeply into another's eyes, while others seem more reserved. At one end of this spectrum people with autism ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1