You probably recognize the emotions expressed in many if not all of these images, no matter where in the world you’re from. Credit: Alan Cowen, UC Berkeley

We’re More Alike Than We Are Different, at Least in Facial Expressions

Emotions generate the same looks around the world—mostly

Robert Roy Britt
2 min readDec 17, 2020

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Humans around the globe use their 40-plus facial muscles to express common emotions with the same basic smiles, scowls and other familiar looks, according to new research published in the journal Nature. That doesn’t mean there are no differences, past…

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Robert Roy Britt

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB