Researchers analyzing 1 million Akkadian words from ancient Mesopotamian texts revealed unique insights into how emotions ...

3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

It’s common for humans to express our emotions with phrases related to the body. For example, butterflies in the stomach ...

The history of emotions reveals fascinating shifts in how different cultures conceptualized feelings. In medieval Europe, ...

Since it is difficult to accept unwanted emotions, it helps to understand the benefits of doing so. We need a helpful carrot, ...

Ancient Mesopotamia felt love in their livers and anger in their feet, revealed a recent analysis of one million words of the ...

Ask a person raised in Taiwan where they feel their rage most in their body; there's a good chance they'll indicate somewhere ...

We are told not to ignore our emotions, but given how debilitating and painful they feel, why not block them out? What’s the ...

"If you compare the ancient Mesopotamian bodily map of happiness with modern ... fear has always been felt in the same parts of the body," says Svärd. "Also, we have to keep in mind that texts are ...

Yet few of us today would express the sympathy we feel deep in our testicles, or the shame we have in our hands, giving us pause to think perhaps the body map of emotions might not be quite as ...