If you have ever caught your pet snuggling up to you when you are upset or getting agitated or happy when you are in a good mood, you are not dreaming. Most pet owners are certain that their animals ...

A new study by a team of Finnish researchers recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) analyzes where we feel emotions in our bodies. Through ...

When you and I look at a photograph of a human face, it is easy for us to recognize the emotional state of the person shown in it just by their expression. Can dogs do the same? I first became ...

Ask a person raised in Taiwan where they feel their rage most in their body; there's a good chance they'll indicate somewhere around their head or chest. Halfway around the world in Finland, you're ...

Scientists are beginning to trace a surprising link between the genes that shape dog behavior and the biology that underpins human mood and social traits. Instead of treating canine affection and ...

We like to think we can read people like a book, relying mostly on tell-tale facial expressions that give away the emotions inside: the way the brows lift slightly with alarm, or the crow’s feet that ...

The keywords assigned to papers by authors in the field of affective computing were analyzed for frequency and co-occurrence, and the core keywords among them were clustered to get five clusters.