Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Ursula Hess from ...

Humans not only recognize emotions on the faces of monkeys and apes but also unconsciously mimic those expressions.

There’s a lot we don’t know about gorillas. This is due to the lack of legal dead gorillas to dissect. And that means many details of our shared family tree remain unclear. For instance, we used to ...