You may be seeing faces in clouds, toast, or cars—and it turns out your brain is wired to notice them. A fascinating new study shows how our attention is hijacked not just by real faces, but by ...

Over the years I have written about the variety of ways we touch our faces to self-soothe or to pacify our anxieties. We touch, caress, stroke, scratch, rub, pull, pluck, indent, press, squeeze, and ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part of the back-and-forth ...