Humans tend to see faces in inanimate objects, but new research has looked at how we tend to interpret them.
According to the Queensland University of Technology study, people detect happy faces faster, and people are more likely to rate 'feminine' faces as happy - even when those faces are not human.
Study author Professor Ottmar Lipp from the Queensland University of Technology speaks to Emile Donovan.
Participants in the Queensland University of Technology study mostly described the left object as happy and feminine, while the image on the right was described as more angry and masculine. Photo: Supplied
