The philosophy of emotion and perception investigates how our emotional responses and perceptual experiences inform and shape our understanding of the world. This field interrogates the distinct ...

In a famous study by Larsen, Kasimatis, and Frey (1992), the researchers instructed participants with golf tees affixed to the edges of their eyebrows to make them touch. In doing so, the participants ...

Research led by UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Jefferson Ortega revealed that 30% of people take a more simplistic approach than using both facial expressions and context — depending on the ambiguity — to ...

In previous posts on The Forensic View, we have seen that eyewitness memories can be reconfigured in the direction of a witness's personal beliefs (Bartlett, 1932; Loftus, 1979; Sharps, 2022). This ...

Body language and the understanding thereof is a crucial part of communication. It is often assumed that humans can innately recognize other’s emotions, but there is growing evidence that the ability ...

Ruth Ogden receives funding from The British Academy, The Wellcome Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, CHANSE and Horizon 2020. This piece was written as part of the Wellcome Trust ...

The researchers identified the amygdala, the brain's emotional center, as key to this process. The amygdala connects to a cortical top-down circuit from motor to sensory cortices which controls ...