Do your facial movements broadcast your emotions to other people? If you think the answer is yes, think again. This question is under contentious debate. Some experts maintain that people around the ...

The use of words with emotional content in books has steadily decreased throughout the last century, according to new research from the Universities of Bristol, Sheffield, and Durham. The study, ...

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, ...

"If you want to know how someone is feeling, it might be better to close your eyes and use your ears," began the news alert from the American Psychological Association. My ears perked up, so to speak.

At a remote outpost in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, a young American psychologist named Paul Ekman arrived with a collection of flash cards and a new theory. It was 1967, and Ekman ...

Why do we shrug our shoulders to indicate helplessness? Why do we cry? Why do we blush? People watchers will enjoy Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, which has been ...