Learning how to interpret other people’s facial expressions can help improve your communication and relationships.

Humans are social beings, hardwired to navigate complex interactions through signals that communicate our internal states. Of all the channels we use to perceive emotion, the human face is arguably ...

Rather than avoiding negative emotions, developmental psychologists recommend practicing emotion coaching. Source: Guillaume de Germain/Unsplash Emotional scenes are common for caregivers. A small boy ...

The AI field has made remarkable progress with incomplete data. Leading generative models like Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, and Llama can understand text but not emotion. These models can’t process your ...

The rise of emoji culture signals a significant shift in how we express emotions. These small, colorful symbols have evolved from simple digital accessories to become primary vehicles for emotional ...

In psychology, your "affect" refers to how you portray emotions – through gestures, your tone of voice, facial expressions, and the like. If you’re happy or upset, people usually can see it on your ...

Whether at a birthday party in Brazil, a funeral in Kenya, or protests in Hong Kong, humans all use variations of the same facial expressions in similar social contexts, such as smiles, frowns, ...

The belief that all humans communicate six basic emotions through their facial expressions has been refuted by researchers at the University of Glasgow. It was Charles Darwin who first noted in his ...

Q: Is it possible to control crying? I cry when I’m sad, when I’m mad and even when I’m happy. It feels uncontrollable and it’s incredibly frustrating. Sometimes it’s even embarrassing, especially ...