[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6ZR5lJgTI[/youtube] By Kathleen Bogart, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oregon State University Facial expressions are important parts of how we communicate and how we develop impressions of the people around us. In “The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals,” Charles Darwin proposed that facial expressions evolved to quickly communicate emotional states important to social survival.…
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How the Brain Labels the Emotions of Others
by Susan Crespo for Washington News Wire Ohio State University researchers have located the single area of the brain that seems to be responsible for helping us categorize and label the facial expressions of those around us. The team monitored brain activity of 10 college students as each were shown over 1,000 pictures of people…
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When Koko the gorilla heard about the recent death of Robin Williams, she broke down and cried. Are animals capable of being empathetic? Tara explains how a few different types of animals are capable of feeling the same emotions as humans!