These Heatmaps Reveal Where Humans Feel Certain Emotions

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Emotions are mostly made up of three axis:- Autonomic arousal scale: alert to calm.- Valence: good to bad.- Focus: interoception to exteroception (making predictions about the outside world).

Andrew Huberman • The Science of Emotions & Relationships

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Because your mind and body are so tightly connected, one of the most effective ways to understand your emotions as they are happening is to learn how to spot the physical changes that accompany your emotions.

Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves • Emotional Intelligence 2.0

This may seem like a dumb question, but have you ever thought about how it is that people can feel their emotions? The answer is that they pay attention to their body. Experiencing an emotion is primarily noticeable based on bodily sensations. People don’t always consciously notice that this is what they’re doing because it’s become so automatic, b... See more

David R. MacIver • Labelling Feelings 101

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None of these four meta-analyses found consistent and specific emotion fingerprints in the body. Instead, the body’s orchestra of internal organs can play many different symphonies during happiness, fear, and the rest.26

Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made

A surprising finding in the science of emotion is that each emotion does not have a specific feeling.3 Instead, what we feel is a general sense of pleasantness or unpleasantness—a feeling tone—and this informs us of what’s going on around us before our conscious brain has had a chance to catch up.

Elaine Fox • Switch Craft: The Hidden Power of Mental Agility

The present findings also show that it is possible to develop systems that can instantly interpret emotional cues to provide immediate and intuitive feedback in a wide range of situations. This could lead to scalable, cost-efficient applications in various domains where understanding emotional context is crucial, such as therapy and interpersonal c... See more

Neuroscience News • AI Matches Humans in Vocal Emotion Detection - Neuroscience News

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So he constructed a chart with four quadrants. The top right quadrant contains emotions that are high in pleasantness and high-energy: happiness, joy, exhilaration. The bottom right quadrant contains emotions that are high in pleasantness but low-energy: contentment, serenity, ease. The top left contains emotions that are low in pleasantness but hi

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Emotions (from the Latin emovere—to move out) give shape and direction to whatever we do, and their primary expression is through the muscles of the face and body.