By Yuan Ren For Mailonline
Published: 17:31 GMT, 15 January 2019 | Updated: 20:51 GMT, 15 January 2019
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Human beings have 17 different facial expressions that tell those around us we are feeling happy.
Experts have discovered that the human face is capable of contorting itself into more happy faces than any other emotion.
Only three facial guises successfully convey fear, four show surprise, and five display sadness and anger.
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Experts have discovered that the human face is capable of contorting itself into more happy faces than any other emotion. Only three facial guises successfully convey fear, four show surprise, and five display sadness and anger (stock)
Researchers at the Ohio State University compiled a list of 821 words that expressed emotions and had these translated into a number of languages including Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Farsi and Russian.
These were entered into popular search engines across countries and the team collected approximately 7.2 million images of facial expressions online.
Using computer algorithms, the researchers established that human face is capable
