If you’re a dog owner, you may have had the feeling that your dog knows exactly how you’re feeling. A smile might bring an enthusiastic tail wag, while a frustrated expression can be met with a noticeably different response. But how much information can dogs actually gather just by looking at our faces? New research…
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A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience caught my attention because it touches on a question that has fascinated me for more than four decades: How can infants understand their mothers and caregivers long before they understand language? This question has been with me since my undergraduate days at the University of Michigan.…
Read MoreFacial Expressions and the Science of Nonverbal Cues
For decades, facial expressions have often been viewed as direct reflections of emotion—a smile means happiness, a frown means frustration, and a grimace signals discomfort. While emotions certainly play a role, emerging neuroscience suggests the story is far more sophisticated. Recent research is revealing that facial expressions are not simply emotional outputs. Instead, they are…
Read MoreMaster the Science of Nonverbal Behavior
What if everything you thought you knew about emotions was only half the story? In this opening episode of the Nonverbal ACEs Masters Series, Dr. David Matsumoto — one of the world’s foremost authorities on emotion science, cross-cultural psychology, and the universality of facial expressions — challenges practitioners to go deeper than conventional training…
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