Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, ...

Do you find it easy to perceive people you meet as happy and positive? Or are you vigilant and look for signs of dissatisfaction and anger in their facial expressions? Your perceptions may be related ...

Since Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, much has been said about what lies behind her smile. Now, researchers have discovered how far this attention-grabbing expression confuses our emotion ...

A German study of prisoners incarcerated for violent crimes found that aggressive criminals were more likely to perceive neutral facial expressions as angry, which are a mix of opposing emotions.

Humans are very good at reading facial expressions of others, but the smile has proved to be more difficult to interpret. Take, for example the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa, which has baffled ...

Over the last decade, there has been a growing body of research on the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation techniques in calming stress and anxiety. With training, people can become more adept at ...

Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, ...

The researchers showed it was possible to experimentally modify biases in emotion recognition to encourage the perception of happiness over anger when viewing ambiguous expressions. This resulted in a ...