Word to the wise: Don’t play poker with your dog. He can read your face like a book. A new study shows that man’s best friend is remarkably good at discerning happy expressions from angry ones ...

The study specifically looked at people's resting faces. That means a scowl or a smile provoked by emotion didn't factor into it — the researchers only looked at faces in "neutral" positions.

Researchers trained a group of 11 dogs to distinguish between images of the same person making either a happy or an angry face. During the training stage, each dog was shown only the upper half or ...

Some of the faces were clearly happy, and some were clearly angry; but most were somewhere in the middle. "There were 15 faces along the continuum," Munafo says, "and people were simply asked to ...

The dogs in a study chose whether a face was happy or angry by tapping an image with their noses. Skip to main content. Scientific American. February 13, 2015. 3 min read.

The Happy Face Advantage for Illusory Faces Is Dependent on Perceived GenderNote. Credit: Emotion (2024). DOI: 10.1037/emo0001346 ...

Happy women and angry men: ... “We found a robust happy face advantage for illusory faces that were rated as more feminine in appearance,” Professor Lipp said.