You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- We use emojis all the time in text messages or emails. A smiley face, a face laughing with tears or a sad face, or an angry face. But are people really being honest when they ...

Putting on “a happy face” brightens a person’s mood because moving facial muscles can influence emotions, according to a new study. Stanford University researchers found that people who mimicked ...

A new study by scientists at USC and California State University, Northridge, reveals that face masks—while important to public health and recommended in many health care settings—can make it harder ...

Faces and voices are more likely to be judged as male when they are angry, and as female when they are happy, new research has revealed. The study found that how we understand the emotional expression ...

How much we can tell about people by looking at their faces? Not as much as was once thought. I was the kind of kid who didn’t want people looking for clues into my inner thoughts. For example, if I ...