Read My Gestures: Body language can trump facial expressions
By Katie Greene
Subtle cues in posture can confound attempts to read emotion from a face, neuroscientists have found. This opposes the prevailing idea that people infer each other’s emotions almost exclusively from facial cues.
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Previous studies had shown that people quickly recognize emotions expressed on an isolated face or from a body topped with a blurred head. Scientists are now investigating how the face and the body, combined, affect people’s perception of emotion.