Then he and his colleagues manipulated photographs of real faces to control the degree to which the eyes and the mouth were happy, sad or neutral. Again, the researchers found that Japanese ...

About 70 percent of the time, participants thought that a neutral face that had been colorized to look happy actually conveyed happiness. They thought faces colorized to look sad were actually sad ...

Figure 1 In another study, Srinivasan and Gupta asked people to search for letters on backgrounds that contained faces bearing either neutral, sad, or happy expressions (the facial expression was ...

You just don’t get cleaner than that. So on to experiment No. 2. In this case, they do the same smiley/neutral/sad-face priming, but this time they also prime their students with some different ...

In a similar experiment, 60 undergraduates viewed a series of faces with happy, sad or neutral expressions. Again, sad volunteers were the most accurate, regardless of the expressions on the faces ...

Figure 1 In another study, Srinivasan and Gupta asked people to search for letters on backgrounds that contained faces bearing either neutral, sad, or happy expressions (the facial expression was ...

Researchers displayed an emotionally-neutral face for the baby while sad music ... babies are categorizing songs as happy or sad the same way that preschoolers and adults do." ...

A second experiment saw the process repeated, but this time 60 volunteers looked at pictures of sad, happy and neutral faces. Again, the sad volunteers were able to pick out the most faces.

When a friend shares an embarrassing secret, you may try to hide your reaction with a poker face. But your head reveals the truth. A recent study found that how people tilt their heads — either ...

Residents in Marion Council have discovered the notes on their bins this week: they come in happy, neutral and sad faces to reflect if people are using their recycling and organic bins as they ...