How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out ...

People instinctively mimic others’ facial expressions, but new research shows we do this far more with joyful faces than with sadness or anger—and that the intensity of mimicry predicts how much we ...

In the research reported here, we investigated how suspicious nonverbal cues from other people can trigger feelings of physical coldness. There exist implicit standards for how much nonverbal ...

How do you get someone to like you, find you more appealing, or feel comfortable around you? How do you balance flirting and building rapport with a date? In past posts, we have looked at these ...

Hosts of brood parasites defend their nests against parasitism by aggression and subsequently, if parasitized, by rejection of the parasite egg or nestling. Cuckoos have evolved plumage mimicry with ...