Basic emotions theory (BET) is the most popular and deeply rooted psychological theory of
both emotion and the facial behavior held to express it. We review its Western foundations …

The field of nonverbal communication (NVC) has a long history involving many cue
modalities, including face, voice, body, touch, and interpersonal space; different levels of …

Given recent technological developments in robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality,
it is perhaps unsurprising that the arrival of emotionally expressive and reactive artificial …

People form first impressions from facial appearance rapidly, and these impressions can
have considerable social and economic consequences. Three dimensions can explain …

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become powerful and increasingly ubiquitous tools to
model human cognition, and often produce similar behaviors. For example, with their …

It is long hypothesized that there is a reliable, specific mapping between certain emotional
states and the facial movements that express those states. This hypothesis is often tested by …

Real-world studies show that the facial expressions produced during pain and orgasm—two
different and intense affective experiences—are virtually indistinguishable. However, this …

Human facial behavior results from a set of roughly 20 muscles. Except for the masseter,
which clenches the jaw, these muscles originate on the bones of the face but insert in the …

Darwin observed that form, and in his view, meaning, of facial behaviour (observable
changes in the appearance of the face, often termed facial 'expression') is similar between a …

With the introduction of the psychophysical method of reverse correlation, a holy grail of
social psychology appears to be within reach–visualising mental representations. Reverse …