Cracking a smile regularly may be good not just for your mood but for your health
Reminding yourself to smile often can not only help you form more friendships but also make you feel better.
Oct 25, 2026
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms: News and Research on Communication
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Slow down, reminisce if it feels right: Practical tips for talking to people with dementia
No one likes to feel left out of the conversation—including people living with dementia. Sometimes, all it takes is a little extra thought to make sure everyone feels included.
Oct 6, 2026
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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.
Sep 29, 2026
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Famed dancer Nijinsky's diary offers rare window into psychosis
More than a century after legendary ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky wrote a diary while experiencing psychosis, McGill University researchers have analyzed its pages to learn more about how mental illness can affect language.
Sep 28, 2026
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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 ...
Sep 17, 2026
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Brain recordings hint at how AI reads facial expressions differently from us
The human brain can recognize a person's face and expression in less than a blink of an eye, but current artificial intelligence (AI) models, although fairly accurate at doing the same, use a different process than the brain. ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Q&A: Why the next pandemic could be stopped by math, not borders
What do LinkedIn, the global airline network and the human brain have in common? They are all complex systems built from networks of connections.
Aug 13, 2026
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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 ...
Jul 17, 2026
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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 ...
Apr 27, 2026
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Your brain turns faces behind you into stronger emotions, rewriting how we read social cues
A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi University of Technology investigated how facial expressions are perceived when a face is located behind ...
Apr 15, 2026
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