Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms: News and Research on Communication

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Shared smiles may shape infants' emotional development

A mother and her baby smiling at each other is more than a heartwarming exchange—this type of positive interaction may help babies develop emotion regulation skills and the physiological foundations of emotional well-being.

Gestures influence the way our brains process grammar

Our hands may do more than complement what we say. They can also help our brains process grammar. In a new neuroimaging study published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) in Nijmegen ...

No evidence mobile phones cause brain cancer—new study

Electromagnetic waves are everywhere. They're the reason you can hear music when you turn on the radio, use Wi-Fi, find your way using satellite navigation, and make calls on a mobile phone. They are a form of electromagnetic ...

Say Cheese3D: A new model can help track facial expressions

Love, pain, joy, fear, desire: the full spectrum of emotion resides in facial expression. We grasp this almost intuitively. However, we still lack a quantifiable understanding of the nuanced relationship between the face ...

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