New Study Shows How Emotions Affect The Human Body

We human beings tend to be emotional creatures. Our emotions more often than not control our actions to many of the everyday situations we confront in our not so mundane lives.

On a daily basis we can experience a variety of emotions ranging from anger when we find ourselves stuck in traffic to joy on our birthday, but did you ever consider whether those emotions could actually be mapped to show how our bodies are responding to emotional circumstances.

Well in a study conducted by Finnish scientists and published on December 31st of last year in the journal Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences under the title “Bodily maps of Emotions“.

In this study, 700 participants including Taiwanese, Swedish, and Finnish subjects had areas of their bodies mapped for the first time ever reflecting their bodies’ emotional responses to feelings that included anger, happiness, and sadness.

The scientists used a Topographical Self Reporting tool to conduct their research, and it was responsible for monitoring the different emotional states that each subject responded to, and could be associated topographically with precise culturally universal physical sensations.

The study was able to confirm that our bodies were capable of having physiological reactions to these emotional sensations in different areas of our bodies.

It also confirmed that each emotion activates an entire network of exact areas in the body, separate from those activated by other types of emotions.

The participants in the study were asked to watch videos that stimulated certain emotions in their bodies, and then were asked to try and identify those areas where they felt responses to the stimulus from the videos they had viewed…

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