A recent study found that psychopathic patients exhibit significantly weaker facial mimicry responses to happy expressions, suggesting impaired automatic emotional processing and a potential biomarker for empathy deficits in psychopathy.

A new study provides insights into the brain processes involved in nonverbal communication of pain, specifically facial expressions.

A recent study found that human brains process emotional expressions from humans and dogs similarly, with empathy enhancing attention to emotional cues. Aggressive faces elicited stronger neural responses, highlighting our sensitivity to emotionally significant…

People with high social anxiety were better at spotting subtle angry expressions and showed stronger brain responses during later stages of processing, suggesting they pay more attention to ambiguous signs of social threat.