Smiles do more than express emotion - new research shows they can unconsciously influence trust and shape how we perceive ...

People instinctively mimic others’ facial expressions, but new research shows we do this far more with joyful faces than with sadness or anger—and that the intensity of mimicry predicts how much we ...

A new study published in the journal Behavioral Sciences highlights generational differences in how adolescents and their ...

How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out that we are more likely to mimic people who express joy, and we perceive those ...

Sometime in the autumn of 1861, Charles Darwin was having a bad day. “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and I hate everybody and everything,” he wrote to his friend. On days like that, Darwin ...

We have a very special relationship with our emotions. On the one hand, we are often embarrassed to be emotional in public; we feel obliged to be rational in a world of performance. On the other hand, ...

AI is transforming marketing, but companies that balance machine efficiency with human creativity and emotional intelligence ...

The best leaders read the room the way analysts read data: identifying unseen tensions, decoding unspoken fears and responding with clarity instead of control.

Last Friday, as I was competing a draft of this essay, I was asked to comment on the notion of trust among nonhuman animals (animals). This request couldn't have come at a better time because I was ...

A hot potato: The United Kingdom's independent authority for privacy doesn't want companies or organizations to use emotion analysis systems based on biometric traits. It's an untested and nascent ...