Red means "Green light, go for it!" Green means: "hmm, better not!" Like an upside down traffic light in our...

There are two premises. First, scientific research has demonstrated that when we look at other people's facial expressions, we tend...

Knowledge of our mother tongue acts as a sort of auditory "template" that influences the way we perceive the sounds...

Regions of the brain can "dance" on their own but when they work together they fall in step to a...

Empathy - the ability to identify and understand other people's emotions - has many components, some sophisticated and involving complex...

A face with an emotionally charged expression, especially if the emotion is anger, can influence the course of our actions,...

The illusion of being in another body affects not only our perception (as is already known) but also our way...

Human beings are born with a visual system already predisposed to see (and mentally representing) objects as discrete perceptual units....

Would you turn down a "sure" amount of money? You might be surprised by your choice. According to scientific research,...

We smile to recall happiness, grimace to recall pain, and frown to recall anger: "theories of embodied emotion state that...

The sudden appearance of a face within our visual field can affect the motor action accompanying a gesture even if...

Recognizing the emotions other people feel is crucial for establishing proper interpersonal relations. To do so, we look at (amongst...

According to many scientists the fact that ALS patients experience (in addition to severe motor deficits) greater linguistic difficulty with...

Children start to learn the sound of words by remembering the first and last syllables. A SISSA study, published in...

Stressed males tend to become more self-centred and less able to distinguish their own emotions and intentions from those of...