"According to the latest research", hah. Once again neuroscientists are late to the game and make "revolutionary" discoveries that social psychologists have kno

"According to the latest research", hah. Once again neuroscientists are late to the game and make "revolutionary" discoveries that social psychologists have known for decades. That physical response predates emotion, and that emotion is in large part about how you interpret internal physical cues, has been hypothesised since at least the 1890s, and arguably known since the 1960s when there were a number of influential experiments testing it. Famously, in 1962 Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer ran an experiment where they manipulated people's internal cues with epinephrine, a drug that causes flushing and increased heart rate. By varying the contextual cues, they got the subjects to interpret this as both happiness and anger, with subjects who got the drug reporting far stronger emotions than those who didn't.