They found that all humans have a core set of five facial muscles which they believe control our ability to produce a set of standard expressions which convey anger, happiness, surprise ...

Scientists have identified 21 facial expressions we all pull, more than three times ... "We found a strong consistency in how people move their facial muscles to express 21 categories of emotions.

Rachel Jack, the lead researcher on the project, told the University’s press office, “What our research shows is that not all facial muscles appear simultaneously during facial expressions ...

Botulinum Toxin, Emotional Anatomy, and Mood Modulation,” published in the May 2025 issue of Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology ...

Whether at a birthday party in Brazil, a funeral in Kenya, or protests in Hong Kong, humans all ... human face has 43 different muscles that can be activated around the eyes, nose, mouth, jaw, chin, ...

Law enforcement isn't the only group that's done an about-face on Ekman, who can tick off the Latin names for all ... locating muscles in their own faces and making corresponding expressions.

On the remote Trobriand Islands, researchers studied villagers’ reactions to images of facial expressions and found their reactions differed from Western societies. (All photography by ... of ...

and when you move the muscles, all the soft tissues move, which is how facial expression works,” said Cotofana, adding that face exercises are largely just moving the skin around. This may ...

Dogs, more so than almost any other domesticated species, are desperate for human eye contact. When raised around people, they begin fighting for our attention when they’re as young as four ...

He has catalogued more than 10,000 possible combinations of facial muscle movements that reveal ... are studying the emotion of facial expressions at all is due in large measure to Ekman's work.

The cats were adult domestic shorthairs of both sexes, all neutered or spayed. Both researchers assessed the differences in expression ... number and types of facial muscle movements.