Long Read Podcast: Are feelings more than skin deep?

Published: March 13, 2020, 4:27 p.m.

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Research in the 1960s and 1970s suggested that emotional expressions \\u2013 smiling when happy, scowling when angry, and so on \\u2013 were universal. This idea stood unchallenged for a generation.


But a new cohort of psychologists and cognitive scientists are revisiting the data. Many researchers now think that the picture is a lot more complicated, and that facial expressions vary widely between contexts and cultures.


This is an audio version of our feature: Why faces don\\u2019t always tell the truth about feelings, written by Douglas Heaven and read by Kerri Smith.



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