The famous body maps of emotion record where people believe they would feel things, not where anything in the body actually changes.

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• Each emotion probably does have a specific bodily signature; the studies that found none measured far too little of the body to have seen it. RARalph Adolphs17 Aug 2026
• Thoughts, feelings, decisions and bodies are not real in themselves, only useful abstractions layered over the underlying chaos of atoms. JBJamie Brandon24 Jun 2026
• The body is not an archive of trauma: what feels like a memory stored in the hips or the jaw is a mind-body feedback loop, and the loop is what therapy interrupts. ASArielle Schwartz25 Aug 2026
• Feelings people are told not to feel are stored inside, and a later loss can make them break down. LGLeslie Greenberg2 Nov 2004
• You cannot reliably tell how someone feels from their facial expression, and Ekman's universality claim does not survive a reading of the whole literature. RARalph Adolphs17 Aug 2026

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