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?

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Most Brits are probably feeling more than their usual share of political anxiety at the moment. Now, charts reveal exactly ...

Music holds an important place in human culture, and we’ve all felt the swell of emotion that music can inspire unlike almost anything else. But what is it exactly about music that can bring on such ...

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 ...

Researchers have found our emotions toward politics not only play on our minds, but shape how our bodies respond to political experiences, even driving political participation higher. The new study, ...