Grin and share it; Our facial expressions are inherited, say scientists.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 17, 2006 ;     525 words ......wrinkling her nose. Scientists believe facial expressions are handed down from generation to...researchers said their study proves facial expressions must be encoded in genetics, rather...understanding of how and why certain facial expressions have evolved. They may even shed...

Facial expressions are inherited

The Hindustan Times;  October 18, 2006 ;     203 words ...London, Oct 18 -- The facial expressions that we exhibit when we...Haifa, Israel, analysed the facial expressions of 21 volunteers who had...relatives' faces, their facial expressions were extremely alike. "We...

Moving faces.(facial expressions and emotions research)

Journal of College Science Teaching;  September 1, 2005 ;     525 words ......them. Whether subtle or intense, facial expressions are the key to how we identify human...Most studies of how we recognize facial expressions have used static models of intense...important part of what makes subtle facial expressions identifiable. A recent study by Zara...

Memory for facial expressions: The power of a smile

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......were presented at study. Memory for facial expressions was tested by presenting the same...source monitoring, in which memory for facial expressions reflects encoding of the dispositional...smile, a frown, a surprised look-such facial expressions convey powerful socio-emotional ...

To Capture a Face: A Novel Technique for the Analysis and Quantification...

Sign Language Studies;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......research has increasingly focused upon facial expressions in ASL and their syntactic significance...In addition to these grammatical facial expressions and the full range of emotional facial expressions, which Ekman and Friesen (1975...

Revealed: why the fear factor runs with the pack

The Scotsman;  November 17, 2004 ;     543 words ......their emotions. Beatrice de Gelder, of Harvard Medical School...the direct reaction to facial expressions. Ms de Gelder began her research after...reactions, as well as facial expressions, could communicate to...Academy of Science. Ms de Gelder and her ...

Facial Morphology and Children's Categorization of Facial Expressions of...

Journal of Genetic Psychology;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Canadian children categorize pictures of facial expressions of basic emotions. The pictures were...selected from the Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotion set developed by D. Matsumoto...with short stories and an array of facial expressions, and were asked to point to ...

How people assess others' emotions

USA Today;  April 1, 2001 ;     399 words ......smile, raised eyebrows, pursed lips-facial expressions can reveal a lot about how a person...individuals to make the connection between facial expressions and emotions? For some time, researchers...that aid in emotion assessment of facial expressions. They found that right ...

Using a self-as-model video combined with Social Stories to help a child...

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......understanding, and using facial expressions (Downs & Smith...most seldom display facial expressions or respond to and recognize...Izard, 1971). Since facial expressions play an integral role...challenges in understanding facial expressions and that this ...

Facial expressions of emotion (KDEF): Identification under different...

Behavior Research Methods;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Participants judged which of seven facial expressions (neutrality, happiness, anger, sadness...psychonomic.org/archive/. Faces and facial expressions of emotion are special types of stimuli...automatic perception of affective facial expressions (Stenberg, Wiking, & Dabi, 1998...

Read my gestures: body language can trump facial expressions.(This Week)

Science News;  October 29, 2005 ;     437 words ......emotions almost exclusively from facial cues. Previous studies had shown...sensitive to any mismatch between the facial expression and the body, explains Beatrice de Gelder of Tilburg University in the Netherlands...National Academy of Sciences, de Gelder and her colleagues describe ...

Photographs of facial expression: Accuracy, response times, and ratings of...

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......participants judged which of seven facial expressions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness...archive/. The information conveyed by facial expressions is so biologically and socially important...that rapidly and accurately decode facial expressions displayed by friends and foes (Rolls...

Categorical perception of facial expressions: Evidence for a "category...

Memory & Cognition;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of categorical perception (CP) for facial expressions. A model based on naming alone failed...interval selectively removed CP for facial expressions, under blocked, but not under randomized...Demonstrations of CP for morphed facial expressions (Etcoff & Magee, 1992; Calder...

I know how you feel: Task-irrelevant facial expressions are spontaneously...

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......involuntarily mimic specific facial expressions, are influenced by the valence...from their body posture, facial expressions, and movement, to respond...appropriately (Darwin, 1872/1998). Facial expressions of basic emotions are recognized...

UC-Berkeley professor studies facial expressions as gateway to emotions

University Wire;  April 6, 2005 ;     665 words ......Paul Eckman, a pioneering expert on facial expressions, while he was doing post-graduate...easier said than done. To study facial expressions, Keltner videotapes people's facial expressions under various circumstances. But...