The belief that all humans communicate six basic emotions through their facial expressions has been refuted by researchers at the University of Glasgow. It was Charles Darwin who first noted in his ...

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...

This is an illustration from the study reveals the difference between how Western Caucasians (WC) and East Asians (EA) perceive the six basic facial expressions of emotion. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Cross-cultural research suggests that there are about half a dozen basic facial expressions in humans, such as happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, anger, and disgust. Around the world, people are very ...