http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- While most people have intuitive reactions to Web sites, a group of Canadian scientists is developing software that can actually measure those emotions and more. http://phys.org/news195233152.html Technology Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:40:01 EST news195233152 (PhysOrg.com) -- Girls may be 'protected' from displaying antisocial behaviour until their teenage years, research suggests. The findings indicate that the brains of people with conduct disorder may operate differently and that antisocial behaviour may not simply be a result of bad choices. http://phys.org/news192899047.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 May 2010 16:04:28 EST news192899047 A new study by researchers from McGill University and the University of British Columbia shows that mice, like humans, express pain through facial expressions. http://phys.org/news192613354.html Medicine & Health Sun, 09 May 2010 13:00:01 EST news192613354 (PhysOrg.com) -- Girls appear to be "protected" from showing antisocial behaviour until their teenage years, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. http://phys.org/news192377654.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 May 2010 16:00:01 EST news192377654 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ji-Dong Yim and Chris Shaw, scientists in Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), are the proud parents of a robotic cell phone family that can walk, dance and express human-like emotions. http://phys.org/news192214085.html Electronics Tue, 04 May 2010 17:49:00 EST news192214085 Scientists have found an important clue in the quest to understand why people who suffer from depression in later life are harder to treat and keep well in the long term. http://phys.org/news192188831.html Medicine & Health Tue, 04 May 2010 11:00:09 EST news192188831 Without vision it's impossible to interpret facial expressions, or so it's believed. Not any more. Shafiq ur Rehman, Umea University, presents a new technology in his doctoral thesis - a Braille code of emotions. "It gives new opportunities for social interactions for the visually impaired," he says. http://phys.org/news191605441.html Technology Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:00:07 EST news191605441 (PhysOrg.com) -- New studies by scientists at the University of Southern California have found that while stress may result in a universal physiological "fight or flight response" there are gender differences in psychological and behavioral responses. The new findings suggest stress makes women more social and more aware of facial expressions, while it tends to make men less social. http://phys.org/news191223014.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:30:30 EST news191223014 (PhysOrg.com) -- When one out of every 100 children born in this country is diagnosed with autism, treatment for those children requires as much attention as the diagnoses. http://phys.org/news190882242.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:51:05 EST news190882242 (PhysOrg.com) -- With smiles, grimaces or raised eyebrows, most of us show our feelings on our faces, but people with Moebius syndrome, a rare condition that causes facial paralysis, can't make any facial expressions at all. Professor of Psychology David Matsumoto and alumna Kathleen Rives Bogart studied people with this unusual condition in an effort to explore how the human brain interprets facial expressions of emotion. http://phys.org/news190568814.html Medicine & Health Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:47:25 EST news190568814 (PhysOrg.com) -- Friends, loved ones and pets can sense your mood almost instantly - and one day your computer may be able to do so pretty quickly as well. http://phys.org/news190455033.html Technology Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:10:58 EST news190455033 Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are developmental disorders usually diagnosed in childhood. Children with ASDs have impairments in social interactions and communication, and a tendency towards repetitive behaviors. A hallmark of autism is a difficulty in understanding and reciprocating the emotion of others. Although behavioral therapies can improve some symptoms of autism, there is currently no effective treatment for these problems. http://phys.org/news189946895.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:40:01 EST news189946895 Japanese researchers said Saturday they have developed a humanoid robot that can laugh and smile as it mimics a person's facial expressions. http://phys.org/news189528493.html Electronics Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:40:01 EST news189528493 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes our deepest emotions are written all over our faces. Stanford researcher David Wilkins is studying how people can be trained to better recognize facial emotions. He is studying drawing techniques used by portrait artists, facial mimicry and emotional memory techniques used by actors, and microexpression and subtle expression recognition techniques developed by psychologists. http://phys.org/news188755398.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:20:01 EST news188755398 An F1000 evaluation looks at a British study of how the six basic human emotions are universally recognized but other positive emotions are culturally specific http://phys.org/news188129916.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:18:47 EST news188129916 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cutting-edge surveillance software that automatically detects human motion, behaviour and facial expressions, generates a running commentary of what?s happening and re-enacts events virtually could soon be helping police and security services. http://phys.org/news187974185.html Technology Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:03:26 EST news187974185 It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. http://phys.org/news187419450.html Electronics Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:57:56 EST news187419450 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research suggests that the brain's lateral prefrontal cortex plays an important role in showing how well someone can rebound emotionally the day after an argument. http://phys.org/news187292557.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:42:59 EST news187292557 Parkinson's disease is a common neurological disorder in the elderly, and the number of affected people is expected to increase as the population ages over the next decades. http://phys.org/news186852055.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:10:01 EST news186852055 Scientists are beginning to find out why people with Parkinson's disease often feel socially awkward. Parkinson's patients find it harder to recognize expressions of emotion in other people's faces and voices, report two studies published by the American Psychological Association. http://phys.org/news186846969.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:56:33 EST news186846969 Anyone who grew up in a large family likely remembers hearing "Don't wake the baby." While it reinforces the message to older kids to keep it down, research shows that sleep also is an important part of how infants learn more about their new world. http://phys.org/news186043269.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:00:01 EST news186043269 A South Korean-developed robot that played to acclaim in "Robot Princess and the Seven Dwarfs" is set for more leading theatre roles this year, a scientist said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news185000863.html Electronics Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:08:07 EST news185000863 (PhysOrg.com) -- Your facial expression may tell the world what you are thinking or feeling. But it also affects your ability to understand written language related to emotions, according to research that was presented today (Jan. 29) to the Society for Personal and Social Psychology in Las Vegas and that will be published in the journal Psychological Science. http://phys.org/news183995939.html Medicine & Health Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:59:26 EST news183995939 Here's a piece of research that might leave you tickled: laughter is a universal language, according to new research. The study, conducted with people from Britain and Namibia, suggests that basic emotions such as amusement, anger, fear and sadness are shared by all humans. http://phys.org/news183653423.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:00:08 EST news183653423 (PhysOrg.com) -- Moving pictures are more suitable to interpret the mood of a person than a static photograph. http://phys.org/news181240600.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:37:32 EST news181240600 (PhysOrg.com) -- By using technology to detect guilty expressions, of course. CSIRO is using automated expression recognition technology to tell whether someone is in pain and, according to computer scientist, CSIRO’s Dr Simon Lucey, there’s no reason why Santa couldn’t train the system to find out who’s been naughty or nice. http://phys.org/news180629200.html Technology Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:47:41 EST news180629200 Subtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers, according to research from Tufts University to appear in the December 18, 2009, issue of the journal Science. http://phys.org/news180284463.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:50:04 EST news180284463 "Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions. http://phys.org/news179170846.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:42:02 EST news179170846 Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research. http://phys.org/news178803034.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:31:11 EST news178803034 A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff in shopping malls. http://phys.org/news176449854.html Electronics Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:20:02 EST news176449854