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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is it possible to decode how we feel from our movements? How can emotions be studied "from the outside" by using empirical methods? To answer these questions, a large international and ...

Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry because we cry, but also cry when feeling sorry. So, what then for our primate ...

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.

Forget the conventional thinking that humans are complex creatures with a wide range of emotions. New research suggest we only have four. The widely held scientific assumption is that we have six ...