Imagine sitting across a table from your boss or a potential client and being able to know what the person is thinking without a word from him or her. Such a reality, it turns out, isn’t as ...

Facial expressions are an important “part of our biological heritage,” but many of us have forgotten how to interpret them, says Richard Conniff, a regular contributor to the magazine. It may be that ...

Evolution has designed animals so that they have distinct expressions which reflect their emotional state. These expressions serve a communication purpose that allows us to select appropriate ...

Angry facial expressions produced at real world speeds are harder for people with autism to recognize than other facial expressions, a new study finds. Both the intensity of an expression and the ...

When you're tired, your ability to interpret subtle expressions of happiness and sadness can begin to deteriorate, researchers have found. However, the ability to read more primitive survival-based ...

Findings from a new study reveal that autistic children can interpret information around a person's eyes in order to interpret the person's mental state. It was previously thought that autistic ...

A critical way we maintain relationships is by being in tune with others—reading facial expressions, interpreting emotions, and responding. But this has been tough over the last year. We haven’t seen ...

Issa Rae is the writer and star of the web series Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl. “Today, we’re so passive-aggressive,” says Rae. “Try not to hide any natural facial expressions that come to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In blog posts, at water coolers and on websites, people are endlessly speculating about the demeanor of shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes in his first ...

Horses understand human facial expressions, and they can tell the difference between happy and angry faces, according to a new Biology Letters study published this week. The rest of this article is ...

Evolution has designed animals so that they have distinct expressions which reflect their emotional state. These expressions serve a communication purpose that allows us to select appropriate ...