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About Face
Boston Magazine: Forty-six years ago a young San Francisco–based cowboy of a psychologist named Paul Ekman emerged from the jungle with proof of a powerful idea. During the previous couple of years, he had set
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Smile: You Are About to Lose
Scientific American: The posed stare-down is a staple of the pre-fight ritual. Two fighters, one day removed from attempting to beat the memories from each other, stand impossibly close, raise their clenched fists and fix
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Wrinkles Make Faces Appear More Sad, Angry
LiveScience: Creases and furrows on someone’s face may put a wrinkle in our ability to properly judge his or her emotions, a new study suggests. In the study, participants viewed photographs of 64 faces, and
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Wrinkles make faces appear sadder and madder
NBC News: Creases and furrows on someone’s face may put a wrinkle in our ability to properly judge his or her emotions, a new study suggests. In the study, participants viewed photographs of 64 faces
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How our expressions help others locate threat
Asian News International: Wide-eyed expressions, which typically signals fear, may enlarge our visual field and mutually enhance others’ ability to locate threats, a new research has claimed. The research – conducted by psychology graduate student
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Fearful expressions help pin-point danger
The Telegraph: Researchers found that the expressions people pull when they are frightened enlarge their visual field whilst simultaneously signalling to others around them where to look for threats. Therefore the expressions are functional in