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Bodily Effects of Emotion
Emotion always causes numerous and intense bodily effects. Furious anger may cause frowning brows, grinding teeth, contracted jaws, clenched fists, panting breath, growling cries, bright redness of the face or sudden paleness. None of these effects is voluntary; we may not even be conscious of them.
Fright may produce a wild beating of the heart, a death-like pallor, a gasping motion of the lips, an uncovering or protruding of the eye-balls, a sudden rigidity of the body as if “rooted” to the spot.
Grief may cause profuse secretion of tears, swollen, reddened face, red eyes and other familiar symptoms.
Shame may cause that sudden dilation of the capillary blood-vessels of the face known as “blushing.”
Bodily Effects of Perception
The sight of others laughing or yawning makes us laugh or yawn. The sound of one man coughing will become epidemic in an audience. The thought of a sizzling porter-house steak with mushrooms, baked potatoes and rich gravy makes the mouth of a hungry man “water.”
By: Warren Hilton
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