Social interactions require quick perception, interpretation, and categorization of faces, with
facial features offering cues to emotions, intentions, and traits. Importantly, reactions to faces …

Judgments of facial attractiveness are central to decision-making in various domains, but
little is known about the extent to which they are malleable. In this study, we used EEG/ERP …

According to a widely held view, basic emotions such as happiness or anger are reflected in
facial expressions that are invariant and uniquely defined by specific facial muscle …

Morphed faces depicting varying degrees of affect expression can be used to investigate the
processing of ambiguous and thus more ecologically valid facial stimuli. Event-related brain …

Faces are among the most important visual stimuli that humans perceive in everyday life.
While extensive literature has examined emotional processing and social evaluations of …

Environmental conditions bias our perception of other peoples' facial emotions. This
becomes quite relevant in potentially threatening situations, when a fellow's facial …

Rapid accurate categorization of the emotional state of our peers is of critical importance
and as such many have proposed that facial expressions of emotion can be processed …

Facial expression of emotions is a powerful vehicle for communicating information about
others' emotional states and it normally induces facial mimicry in the observers. The aim of …

There is broad evidence that contextual factors influence the processing of emotional facial
expressions. Yet temporal-dynamic aspects, inter alia how face processing is influenced by …

Recent evidence suggests that dynamic facial expressions of emotion unfolding over time
are better recognized than static images. However, the mechanisms underlying this …