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Doris Day blows against

Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

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Reversing the psychiatric gaze

Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.

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The smile catchers

From facial recognition to emojis in apps, find out how the monitoring of emotions is used to get more out of workers.

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Drawing the human animal

We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.

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  • Facial expression in a case of chronic tetanus
  • Stern facial expression, hand drawn illustration
  • Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles of expression
  • Faces expressing the passions and showing the muscles relation to expression, with an explanation of the art of 'pathognomy', the reading of facial expression. Etching, c. 1800.
  • Experiments in physiology. Facial expressions
  • Experiments in physiology. Facial expressions; Frowning
  • Experiments in physiology. Facial expressions; Amazement
  • Two photographs showing different facial expressions
  • Experiments in physiology. Facial expressions; Attention
  • Two photographs showing different facial expressions.
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