A new study published Wednesday in Royal Society Open Science suggests the facial muscles needed for the “puppy dog eyes” expression might not be exclusive to domestic dogs. Coyotes have the ...

Learning From The Dead: What Facial Muscles Can Tell Us About Emotion Date: June 17, 2008 Source: University of Portsmouth Summary: Laugh and the world laughs with you, but wrinkle your nose and ...

Scientists from the University of Portsmouth's Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology have created the first ...

In 1862, French neurologist Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne published The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression, a scientific and aesthetic text on the ways in which the muscles of ...

A study found that dogs generally have faster facial muscles than wolves—muscles that allow them to quickly react with more expression, similar to humans. These same muscles may also help ...

The CIA said thanks but no thanks to San Francisco psychologist Paul Ekman when he offered years ago to teach special agents how to read faces to detect deception. Today, the CIA is one of dozens ...

"That suggests that our brains decode facial expressions by adding up sets of key muscle movements in the face of the person we are looking at," study author Aleix Martinez said in a university ...

This will loosen up your muscles and allow you to shift between facial expressions more easily. Use your fingers or a facial massage tool to press into your masseter muscle (your lower jaw and ...

While some represented combinations of emotions, each differed in terms of which muscles were involved. And surprisingly, these facial expression patterns were remarkably consistent across all 230 ...

To examine how each of these muscles impacts facial expressions, the researchers worked with people who are specially trained to be able to activate each and every one of those 42 muscles.

A diagram shows the LAOM muscle that pulls the inner eyebrow ... To examine the iconic facial expression in canines, Cunningham and his team collected and dissected ten coyotes that had been ...