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

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.

Our emotions and our relationship with them are an important part of our health and well-being. Because of their importance in understanding human behavior, psychologists have long been striving to ...

In a phenomenon known as introspection, the brain is constantly communicating with the rest of the body to not only relay information about what is going on around but also inside our bodies. Our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain. The findings provide new insights that could help inform ...

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 ...