The human smile is highly variable in both its form and the social contexts in which it is
displayed. A social-functional account identifies three distinct smile expressions defined in …

Purpose In the current study, the authors attempt to thoroughly investigate the concept of
beauty from different perspectives in different historical periods and offer their personal …

“Bold and original.”—Daniel Kahneman, PhD, bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow
There are a slew of books on the market dictating programs for achieving happiness, but …

Social interaction research is lacking an experimental paradigm enabling researchers to
make causal inferences in free social interactions. For instance, the expressive signals that …

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Few books change one's life; in 48 hours this has
improved mine'Jenni Russell, Sunday Times How can we make it easier to be happy? Using …

Virtual streamer has been utilized in the field of destination marketing where it has gained
considerable success. This study develops an emotional richness–streamer attractiveness …

Gullibility as a scientific concept does not currently feature prominently in social psychology
research, and one would search in vain the subject indexes of many social psychology …

Wearing face masks in public has become the norm in many countries post-2020. Although
mask-wearing is effective in controlling infection, it has the negative side effect of occluding …

Several empirical studies have linked political candidates' electoral success to their physical
appearance. We reexamine the effects of candidates' physical attractiveness by taking into …

The Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces (KDEF) is one of the most widely used human
facial expressions database. Almost a decade after the original validation study, we present …