Graphic reveals how emotions cause real physical symptoms

Love DOES make us warm inside while disgust turns our stomach: Graphic reveals how emotions cause real physical symptoms

  • A study found that different emotions affect the body in different ways yet these effects are the same across cultures
  • Love is felt right down to the toes and happiness suffuses the whole body
  • Angry people are more aware of their head and arms - this could be because they are subconsciously preparing for a fight
  • Sadness leaves the limbs feeling weak and disgust is primarily felt in the throat and digestive system

By FIONA MACRAE SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT

If you’ve ever felt a warm glow inside when in love or hot headed with anger, there may have been more to it than you thought.

Scientists have suspected for a long time that emotions are connected to a range of physiological change and now a study has shown that emotional states are associated with specific sensations regardless of a person’s culture.

The research visually shows that heartbroken people really do feel an ache in their chest, weak with sadness or feel happiness spreading over their entire body.

Being in love makes a person feel a warm glow everywhere apart from their knees, perhaps hinting that there may be something in the popular saying that the object of a person’s affection makes them ‘weak at the knees’.

Sadness leaves our limbs feeling weak and we are extra-aware of activity in our chest – and heart.

Depression also leaves us feeling weak, while disgust is felt in the throat and digestive system.  

Basic emotions including anger and fear cause an increase in sensation in the upper chest area, which could be because we are subconsciously preparing for a fight.

Yellow shows the regions of increased sensation while blue areas represent decreased feelingsYellow shows the regions of increased sensation while blue areas represent decreased feelings

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