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, ...

Evolutionary psychologist Paul Ekman—who achieved international recognition for his “atlas of emotions,” a compendium of more than 10,000 emotion-induced facial expressions—originally argued that ...

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 ...

Researchers in Finland have compiled the first authoritative atlas of "body maps" that detail where we feel emotions. We can now clearly see that happiness actually makes us feel tingly all over, that ...

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

We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're ...

The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion proposes that we feel emotions and physiological reactions, like heart racing or sweating, at the same time. Unlike other theories, it argues that these reactions are ...

When someone is feeling bad, it can be hard to know how to improve their mood and reconnect with them. Fortunately, research ...

Some studies suggest that we immediately judge and make assumptions about people from micro-facial expressions. Others, like one from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argue that the ...