Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy as Felt in the Body: A Five-Nation Study

Abstract

An ongoing debate is centered on the question of whether emotions have their own pattern of autonomic nervous system activation. To determine whether individuals do perceive subjective physiological changes for different emotions, 514 university students in Germany, Mexico, Poland, Russia, and the United States indicated on a 6-point scale to what extent they felt anger, envy, fear, and jealousy in particular parts of the body and body processes. In agreement with recent studies, the pattern of sites where emotions were re ported to be felt varied for different emotions. Cross-cultural commonalities and differences were also found. The findings were