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Young Children Form First Impressions From Faces
Just like adults, children as young as 3 tend to judge an individual’s character traits, such as trustworthiness and competence, simply by looking at the person’s face. And they show remarkable consensus in the judgments
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Nonverbal Accents
Psychological research is revealing that facial expressions and other forms of nonverbal communications may have culturally specific identifiers, contrary to long-held beliefs about cultural commonalities in emotion cues.
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Expressions of fear and disgust aided human survival, study says
Los Angeles Times: Why do our eyes open wide when we feel fear or narrow to slits when we express disgust? According to new research, it has to do with survival. In a paper published
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Emotions May Not Be So Universal After All
TIME: From a very young age, infants have a way of making their feelings known – contorted faces and howls indicate their displeasure with a meal or a damp diaper, a gummy smile their contentment
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What Faces Can’t Tell Us
The New York Times: CAN you detect someone’s emotional state just by looking at his face? It sure seems like it. In everyday life, you can often “read” what someone is feeling with the quickest
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Multiple Levels of Bilingual Language Control: Evidence From Language Intrusions in Reading Aloud Tamar H. Gollan, Elizabeth R. Schotter, Joanne Gomez, Mayra Murillo, and Keith Rayner Bilingual
