How Does Emotion Change Our Bodies

"A new study maps how different emotions are felt within the body, with profound implications for ways to control how we feel. "We often think the emotions are something that happen only in the mind, but there's also lots of evidence suggesting that they also happen in our bodies," lead author Lauri Nummenmaa, of the Aalto University School of Science in Finland, told NPR. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, the study is based on five experiments involving 701 participants who were shown two silhouettes of bodies alongside emotional words, stories, movies, or facial expressions and asked to color the bodily regions whose activity they felt increasing or decreasing while viewing each stimulus."