A new study by a team of Finnish researchers recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) analyzes where we feel emotions in our bodies. Through ...

Hot colors represent engagement of a body area. Cool colors represent disengagement of a body area. We all know colloquial sayings that link body areas and physical sensations to specific emotions.

This is what warm fuzzy feeling you experience when you're happy looks like. A fascinating map shows the human body's ...

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers conducted multiple experiments comprising guided stimuli and a novel topographical self-reported computer-based method named "embody" to ...

Discover where emotions like happiness, anger, fear, and sadness are felt in the body. Explore the science of emotional body ...

Have you ever felt like there was a pit in your stomach? What about a flutter in your heart? It turns out that the anatomical connections we make with certain emotions and feelings — what researchers ...

Ask a person raised in Taiwan where they feel their rage most in their body; there's a good chance they'll indicate somewhere around their head or chest. Halfway around the world in Finland, you're ...

Emotions can cause physical symptoms, such as muscle tension or pain. When these symptoms are persistent, it may feel as though emotions are trapped in the body. While the idea of emotions being ...

“A theory of consciousness that cannot account for emotions is hardly a theory of consciousness.”—Joseph LeDoux 1 This is Part 4 of a four-part series on What Actually Are Emotions? Antonio Damasio’s ...