The philosophy of emotion and perception investigates how our emotional responses and perceptual experiences inform and shape our understanding of the world. This field interrogates the distinct ...

“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.” —Cicero The breadth of emotions that our eyes are able to express is truly far-reaching. From joy to longing, from anger to fear, ...

The film Black Swan (2010) is the journey of a dancer seeking perfection. However, this leads her to dance a downward spiral, in which reality becomes increasingly distorted. The concept of reality is ...

When emotions start to spiral, most people try to suppress them or fix them immediately, but that usually just makes it worse ...

This past holiday season when students watched their relatives opening presents, they looked at more than just their faces to gauge their reactions, according to University psychology professor ...

In the UK version of the TV show "The Traitors," contestants were given five minutes to find as much gold as they could, put it into cages and hoist them before the time ran out. There was a catch ...

Our smiles broadcast, hey world, I am pleased. Our frowns say, don't mess with me. What about the other way around? Do we use our facial muscles to read emotion in the world? Our default assumption is ...

The diagram plots normalised heart rate (X-axis) against time estimation error (Y-axis): lower points indicate that the video was perceived as shorter. Each dot ...

LaRae Quy is the founder and CEO of the Mental Toughness Center and the producer of Secrets of a Strong Mind, an online training program. Nothing could prepare me for the reaction I would receive when ...