Familiar faces look happier than unfamiliar ones

(University of California - San Diego) It's a cheesy pick-up line: 'Haven't I seen you somewhere before?' It might also be something that profoundly alters how we perceive other people. According to research from UC San Diego, familiar faces look happier to us than unfamiliar ones, even when faces are objectively expressing the same emotion to the same degree.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news