Selection for universal facial emotion.

@article{Waller2008SelectionFU,
  title={Selection for universal facial emotion.},
  author={Bridget M. Waller and James J Cray and Anne M. Burrows},
  journal={Emotion},
  year={2008},
  volume={8 3},
  pages={
          435-9
        }
}
Facial expression is heralded as a communication system common to all human populations, and thus is generally accepted as a biologically based, universal behavior. Happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust are universally recognized and produced emotions, and communication of these states is deemed essential in order to navigate the social environment. It is puzzling, however, how individuals are capable of producing similar facial expressions when facial musculature is known to… 
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