In each location, he showed people photos of different facial expressions and asked them to match the images with six different emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust.

Despite the words being used interchangeably, emotions and feelings are actually two different but connected phenomena. Emotions originate as sensations in the body. Feelings are influenced by our ...

Regarding emotions vs. feelings vs. moods, emotion is typically defined as a complicated response to certain situations, often involving behavioral, experiential, and physiological factors.

Intellectualizing your emotions and feeling them are two distinct approaches to dealing with emotional experiences. While ...

But, she says, more research is needed to see how people express feelings with their bodies in different contexts and whether or not manipulations make them feel differently. Either way, her research ...

For the study, Cowen and Keltner collected 2,185 short videos that aimed to elicit particular emotions such as five to ten second clips of a pig falling out of a moving truck, a cat giving a dog a ...

The study of emotions and feelings is important because they are at the core of what makes us human. They can motivate us and determine our thoughts, ideas, goals and behaviors.

A new theory of emotions reveals just how easily our feelings can be shaped by context – offering some powerful ways for dealing with stress. One day at graduate school, one of Lisa Feldman ...

Witnessing two lovers reunite on screen elicits feelings of happiness. Watching someone throw up triggers feelings of disgust. It's generally accepted that these emotions are categorically ...

People love to characterize emotion and feelings as toxic to rational, objective decision making. "Be cool and dispassionate," they say. While there's some truth to that, there is also evidence to ...

Do animals feel human emotions? Joseph LeDoux, a researcher at New York University, says no, at least, they don’t have emotions and feelings the way humans do. Animals studies are still useful ...