Our faces broadcast our feelings in living color—even when we don't move a muscle. ... participants thought that a neutral face that had been colorized to look happy actually conveyed happiness.

Whether it is arguing until ‘blue in the face’ or feeling ‘green with envy’ the English language is well-stocked with idioms linking colour to emotion.

More information: Erika H. Siegel et al, Seeing What You Feel: Affect Drives Visual Perception of Structurally Neutral Faces, Psychological Science (2018).DOI: 10.1177/0956797617741718 ...

People tend to perceive faces they are familiar with as looking happier than unfamiliar faces, even when the faces objectively express the same emotion to the same degree, according to new research.

When we let emotions from one event carry on to the next, such spillover can color our impressions and behavior in new situations - sometimes for the worse. Researchers are discovering what ...

Colors and Emotions. If thinking about the color red makes you think about love, you're not alone. In a large cross-cultural survey that included 30 nations and 22 languages, the association of ...

This same effect can also apply to social targets: a neutral face can ‘grab’ the emotion of the angry person next to it, causing the neutral person to be remembered as angry.

They viewed faces of three men and three women who were young (ages 19 to 21) or old (ages 76 to 83) displaying one of four facial expressions: neutral, happy, sad, or angry.

The faces were designed to display neutral emotions or the negative emotions of anger, disgust, fear, or sadness; as shown on the computer screen portraying standard faces (whose gender wasn’t ...

"Neutral faces are simply faces that were produced by actors with the intention of showing no emotion," Ruocco said. "Typically, researchers have tested these faces with healthy individuals and ...