Here’s something to smile about — 20 other facial expressions

Happy, sad, and angry do not even begin to cover the range of emotions we express in our faces, a study has found.

Here’s something to smile about — 20 other facial expressions

Using new computer software, scientists mapped no less than 21 emotional states, including apparently contradictory examples such as “happily disgusted” and “sadly angry”.

The research more than triples the number of known emotional facial expressions.

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