The happy face advantage, the faster recognition of happy than of negative, angry or fearful,
emotional expressions, has been reliably found and is modulated by social category cues …

Despite our fluency in reading human faces, sometimes we mistakenly perceive illusory
faces in objects, a phenomenon known as face pareidolia. Although illusory faces share …

Facial expressions are vital for social communication, yet the underlying mechanisms are
still being discovered. Illusory faces perceived in objects (face pareidolia) are errors of face …

The current studies investigate how social categorization may influence the perception of
facial expressions. Across two experiments, we find that the speed and accuracy of facial …

Facial cues for age, race, and sex influence how we recognize facial expressions. For
example, the faster recognition of happy compared to sad expression increases in …

Face pareidolia is the illusory perception of non-existent faces. The present study, for the first
time, contrasted behavioral and neural responses of face pareidolia with those of letter …

Happy faces are categorized faster as “happy” than angry faces as “angry,” the happy face
advantage. Here, we show across three experiments that the size of the happy face …

The current work examined contributions of emotion-resembling facial cues to impression
formation. There exist common facial cues that make people look emotional, male or female …

Interpreting another's true emotion is important for social communication, even in the face of
deceptive facial cues. Because spatial frequency components provide important clues for …

Perception of facial expressions of emotion is generally assumed to correspond to
underlying muscle movement. However, it is often observed that some individuals have …