You know those little smilie faces you put in text messages, emoticons? A group of scientists at Aalto University have created a full-body emoticon by averaging participant responses to different emotions (you can see the experiment here). Besides being just plain cool, this research has some impact on the study of emotions in general, …

Wondering whether your attempts to spread joy throughout the world via Twitter are working? The results of an interesting study from China’s Beihang University on how effective certain emotions are on social media have just been released, and while your warm fuzzies do show a tendency to spread, anger is far more likely to be …

Though culture teaches us that emotions come from the heart, science knows it’s just one of the many fascinating functions of the brain and are discovering more and more about this fascinating field every day. This infographic from BestPsychologyDegrees takes a closer look at the research and what we now know about the brain and …