TL;DR: A 2025 study in BMC Biology found that people judged female body size about as accurately from lower-body images as from whole-body images, but isolated thigh regions alone were not enough. Key Findings Two body-perception experiments: Researchers tested 99 participants in Experiment 1 and 116 participants in Experiment 2 using a bodyline task. Lower-body …
TL;DR: A 2025 study in European Journal of Neuroscience found that slow breathing sharpened fearful-face perception during inhalation but weakened it during exhalation, with magnetoencephalography showing brain-timing changes before the face appeared. Key Findings 31 adults judged faces while breathing on cue: The main experiment paired normal-paced and slow-paced breathing with a fearful-versus-neutral face discrimination …
Digital Faces Looked More Believable When Their Eyes Matched the Emotion TL;DR: A virtual smile or glare looked most believable with direct eye contact, while sadness became more believable when the digital face looked downward. Key Findings Direct gaze boosted approach emotions: Happy and angry avatar expressions looked most authentic when the eyes met the …
