What are emotion expressions for?

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 14:30 in Psychology & Sociology

That cartoon scary face -- wide eyes, ready to run -- may have helped our primate ancestors survive in a dangerous wild, according to a new article. The authors present a way that fear and other facial expressions might have evolved and then come to signal a person's feelings to the people around him.

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