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Over time, we’ve learned how to read the body language of horses – from understanding whether the movement of its ears, head, legs and tail mean its relaxed, anxious, angry or alert. But it turns out ...

When I started horse riding lessons at the age of eight, I was told that if a horse had its ears forward that was a good sign, and if horse had its ears back it wasn’t happy. Those riding lessons ...

Shy people may be hesitant to look you in the eye, but they seem to have a superior ability to recognize certain facial expressions, a new study suggests. In the study, college-age adults who were shy ...

This 1936 portrait by Dorothea Lange shows Florence Owens Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." Source: Dorothea Lange/Public Domain Photographers and ...

The study centered around male and female adult domestic shorthairs that had each been neutered or spayed Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an ...

Understanding facial expressions is key in nonverbal communication, as words may not accurately convey emotions, and the face often reveals a person's feelings. They convey our emotions by altering ...

ARISTOTLE RECKONED the face was a window onto a person’s mind. Cicero agreed. Two millennia on, facial expressions are still commonly thought to be a universally valid way to gauge other people’s ...

A while back I wrote that connection is more than just looking at someone with feeling. There are actually 10 different ways that it’s possible to connect with people when speaking to them. It’s ...

The human face is a trusty map when navigating the landscape of everyday affairs. Mostly, we are very skilled at using it. We can detect someone’s joy. We can sense another’s disenchantment. We can ...