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When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part of the back-and-forth that allows us to understand each other's emotions ...

Understanding facial expressions is key in nonverbal communication, as words may not accurately convey emotions, and the face often reveals a person's feelings. They convey our emotions by altering ...

Cats can use hundreds of facial expressions to communicate, a new study reveals. Over the course of a year, researchers recorded a total of 276 distinct facial expressions used among a colony of 50 ...

Cats may play it cool, but their true feelings are written all over their furry little faces The flick of an ear. A wrinkle of a nose. Those long, slow blinks. Cat owners have long believed their cats ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cats have 276 distinct facial expressions, a discovery that turns on its head the popular belief that our pet felines are aloof and just not that into us. In fact, cats likely evolved these various ...