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Abstract: Facial micro-expressions (MEs) are caused by brief and subtle movements of facial muscles, revealing a person's genuine emotions and offering valuable insights into lie detection, criminal ...

Researchers found that autistic and non-autistic people move their faces differently when expressing emotions like anger, happiness, and sadness. Autistic participants tended to rely on different ...

You may know me from the Opinion pages of the print paper, where I have been an editor since 2017. Earlier this year I scrapped with Vice President JD Vance about free markets, which may have caught ...

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has long been a critic of progressive campus culture. Now it’s taking on new, and surprising, targets. By Jennifer Schuessler and Vimal Patel The ...

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In a 2024 review paper (“Cultural Psychology: Beyond East and West”), Kitayama and Salvador summarize decades of findings in comparative psychology across cultures. Interestingly, the meaning of ...