Tunisia was the birthplace of the Arab Spring last year, and many regard it as the most Western-looking nation in the Arab world. Yet it's also waging a roaring debate over how to define freedom of ...

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Cultural expressions encompass the various ways individuals and communities communicate their beliefs, values, and experiences through art, music, literature, and traditions. In a world that is rich ...

In 1969, Paul Ekman was presenting his findings on the universality of human facial expressions to a meeting of the American Anthropological Association, when an anthropologist tried to stop him from ...

New research shows facial expressions are planned by the brain before movement, not automatic emotional reactions.

Do your facial movements broadcast your emotions to other people? If you think the answer is yes, think again. This question is under contentious debate. Some experts maintain that people around the ...

The controversy about whether there are universal emotional expressions, and how many such universals there might be, continues to this day. This question has been a central battlefield in the war ...