Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to flirting, men and women aren’t necessarily great at reading the nonverbal cues that show someone is romantically ...

You don’t have to be Jim Carrey to recognize that the human face is amazingly elastic and expressive. We can squint, flare our nostrils, purse our lips-yeah, it’s a lengthy list, and all of those ...

You prepared thoroughly for a presentation at work, and now you’re dropping wisdom to a packed room. Much as you expected, your colleagues appear wowed and ...

Want to know what expressions people in Papua New Guinea or Siberia use most? Look in the mirror. A study making waves this week in Nature finds that people around the world show emotion on their ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at the picture above. Do you think the ...

New research titled "identifying a facial expression of flirtation and its effect on men" deconstructs the morphology of highly-recognized flirtatious facial expressions used by heterosexual women to ...

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 ...

Great apes copy facial expressions of other apes with exact detail, a behavior that may reveal how human communication first ...