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Study: Facial expressions of intense joy and anguish are indistinguishable

December 26, 2012 | Author:Summer Allen, Graduate and Postdoc, Brown University
Facial expressions of intense joy and anguish are actually indistinguishable

A fascinating new study shows that we use visual input from bodies more than faces to determine whether someone is having a very good or a very bad day.