Subtle cues in posture can confound attempts to read emotion from a face, neuroscientists have found. This opposes the prevailing idea that people infer each other’s emotions almost exclusively from facial cues.
FEELING CONFLICTED. Scientists used emotionally congruent (left) and incongruent (right) bodies and faces to determine how body language affects the perception of emotion on the face.
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