Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: We now turn to disgust. Yes, that's also a branch of science, didn't you know? Here's ...

It has been proposed that facial expression production originates in sensory regulation. Here we demonstrate that facial expressions of fear are configured to enhance sensory acquisition. A ...

September 3, 2009 — Patients with disfiguring psoriasis appear to have altered brain responses to disgust, allowing them to cope with the social stigma of their illness by "screening out" others' ...

BOSTON — Young children have a gift for doing things that adults find disgusting. But kids themselves take a surprisingly long time, until about age 5, to grasp the meaning of adults’ facial ...

Human beings have only four basic facial expressions which correspond to distinct universal emotions - two fewer than previously believed, say scientists. There are now a third less because while ...

Why do our eyes open wide when we feel fear or narrow to slits when we express disgust? According to new research, it has to do with survival. In a paper published Thursday in the journal ...

Some of the expressions the researchers identified, from top left to bottom right: happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised, disgusted, happily surprised, happily disgusted, sadly fearful, sadly angry.

So why are you making that face? Because back when humans were evolving into what we are now, those specific contortions of eyes, nose, mouth and cheeks were adaptive—that is, useful for surviving.