Close your eyes and imagine the last time you fell in love. Maybe you were walking next to your sweetheart in a park or staring into each other's eyes over a latte. Where did you feel the love?

Have you ever described feeling “cold feet,” “a gut instinct,” or “a shiver down your spine”? These common expressions might seem trivial, but they reflect something real. Emotional body mapping can ...

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 ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that political emotions are not just ...

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 ...

We like to think we can read people like a book, relying mostly on tell-tale facial expressions that give away the emotions inside: the way the brows lift slightly with alarm, or the crow’s feet that ...

Our bodies often know about our emotions before we do. It's often hard for us to recognize and parse our emotions, especially if we're going through it or have a long history of struggles and trauma.

There’s no doubt that emotion and art are intrinsically linked, whether it’s the viewer’s experience or the artist’s subjects. Yet little has been revealed about how art-evoked emotions stem from the ...