Facial expressions offer potent displays of emotions and to a large extent are universally understood. Yet the social context or framing around an expression is important and can color how we ...

Does eye contact always attract attention? Not in every case, as a research team at the University of Würzburg's Institute of Psychology has recently shown. Why not? Because context matters. In a ...

New research suggests that women have a tendency to attribute more hostility to other women's faces than is actually present or intended. The notion of “resting bitch face," or the tendency for a ...

How the online experiment was conducted To fill this knowledge gap, Hess and colleagues conducted an online experiment in which 212 participants saw videos that showed monkeys and apes displaying ...