“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.” —Cicero The breadth of emotions that our eyes are able to express is truly far-reaching. From joy to longing, from anger to fear, ...

A research team assessed the emotional authenticity perception in laughter and crying in participants who were born or became blind early in life and in participants who lost their sight later in life ...

How can you tell whether people who lie to you believe what they are saying? Understanding the effects of emotional ...

The film Black Swan (2010) is the journey of a dancer seeking perfection. However, this leads her to dance a downward spiral, in which reality becomes increasingly distorted. The concept of reality is ...

The item “I can read people like a book” in the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) 1, a popular scale of grandiose agentic narcissism, is indicative of high levels of that trait. Indeed, ...

The researchers of the NEAD group conduct their experiments using different kinds of methods able to investigate the brain processes related to ...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, mask-wearing has become a requirement worldwide. As a result, many social interactions have been allowed only when people wear masks. However, wearing masks conceals the ...

In the UK version of the TV show "The Traitors," contestants were given five minutes to find as much gold as they could, put it into cages and hoist them before the time ran out. There was a catch ...

Your favorite color may reflect your personality traits, emotional tendencies and lifestyle preferences, according to color ...

The diagram plots normalised heart rate (X-axis) against time estimation error (Y-axis): lower points indicate that the video was perceived as shorter. Each dot ...

Being able to read others' affective states and intentions from facial expressions is crucial for social interaction. Nonhuman primates share the same ability as humans to express emotions via facial ...