GLASGOW , England, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Humans are capable of expressing only four basic facial emotions, while other emotions develop over time into more complex socially-specific signals. According to ...

If you were to travel anywhere in the globe -- even to visit remote tribes who have scant contact with the larger world -- would people be able to read your emotions from your facial expressions ...

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 ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! So there’s no such thing as a basic emotion? It sounds crazy. But this is where all ...

Introduced by Japan’s Masahiro Mori, the “Uncanny Valley” principle states that the more a humanoid robot strives and fails to mimic human appearance, the less appealing it is to humans. In yet ...

Do people from different cultures express emotions differently? A new paper says yes: Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. But as far as I can see the data show that at least ...

GLASGOW, Scotland, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Researchers in Scotland say a belief there are six basic emotions universally recognized through specific facial expressions is wrong -- there are just four. A ...

Scientists have now determined that humans can make up to 21 facial expressions. The new study computers to map the emotional expressions, which ranged from "sad" to "happily disgusted." The study was ...

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...

New research reveals how well fearful facial expressions are perceived in peripheral vision. Although human vision has the highest resolution when we look directly at something, we see a much wider ...