The Emotions Lab

Thoughtful and suspicious

We bet you didn’t say ‘thoughtful and suspicious’! That is how the Scottish physician, nerve specialist and artist Sir Charles Bell described this horse’s expression. Bell wrote a very important book about expression in the nineteenth century, which was a big influence on Charles Darwin. Scientists today continue to debate whether animals have emotions like ours.

Thoughtful and suspicious

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