Social signals can serve as potent emotional triggers with powerful impacts on processes
from cognition to valence processing. How are social signals dynamically and flexibly …

Emotion recognition represents the ability to encode an ensemble of sensory stimuli
providing information about the emotional state of another individual. This ability is not …

The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive
overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication. Authored by …

Louann Brizendine, MD, is a neuropsychiatrist whose professional career has been devoted
to studying the female brain and writing and lecturing to both the public and professionals …

Can humans communicate emotional states via chemical signals? In the experiment
reported here, we addressed this question by examining the function of chemosignals in a …

Nonhuman terrestrial mammals sniff themselves and each other to decide who is friend or
foe. Humans also sniff themselves and each other, but the function of this is unknown …

Throughout human evolution, infectious diseases have been a primary cause of death.
Detection of subtle cues indicating sickness and avoidance of sick conspecifics would …

We report a study examining interspecies emotion transfer via body odors (chemosignals).
Do human body odors (chemosignals) produced under emotional conditions of happiness …

It is well known that feelings of happiness transfer between individuals through mimicry
induced by vision and hearing. The evidence is inconclusive, however, as to whether …

Simple Summary Equine assisted interventions (EAIs) represent an emerging field of animal
assisted interventions (AAIs), employing horses in a wide variety of activities with humans …