Lauri Nummenmaa, a psychologist from Aalto University of Finladia, conducted a survey on 700 people from Findalia, Sweden, and Taiwan.
Surveys were done fairly interesting because it involves a large population of respondents and from various backgrounds.
Researchers presenting a series of words, stories, videos, and images that can trigger a variety of feelings, ranging sad, depressed, happy, to love.
Respondents were also faced with two body image on a computer screen. Body image was then used to illustrate the physiological effects of emotion respondents.
After seeing and reading the stories and images, respondents were asked to describe body parts that have increased and decreased activity in each image.
The results showed that when respondents feel love, they feel the whole body is more active, more warm.
Meanwhile, in research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science's, when feeling angry, respondents felt the increased activity in the head and chest.
Contrary to love, depression reduces the activity in all parts of the body. Sadness increases the activity of the chest.
Although not scientifically sound, because just look at the responses of respondents subjectively and there is no measurement of the biological activity of the body's improvement, this study considered scientific enough.
With a large number of respondents, as reported Extreme Tech, this research presents the results of quantitative research is valid.
Researchers hope that, in the future, research results can be used to help people with depression therapy or specific problems.
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