{"id":233031,"date":"2026-03-11T03:31:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/why-anger-feels-close-to-fear-brain-charts-emotion-in-a-map-like-way"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:31:54","slug":"why-anger-feels-close-to-fear-brain-charts-emotion-in-a-map-like-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/why-anger-feels-close-to-fear-brain-charts-emotion-in-a-map-like-way","title":{"rendered":"Why anger feels close to fear: Brain charts emotion in a map-like way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-anger-feels-close-to-fear-brain-charts-emotion-in-a-map-like-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is well established in psychology that humans conceptualize emotions by features known as valence (the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness) and arousal (the intensity of bodily reactions, such as rapid breathing or a racing heart).<\/p>\n<p>If you think of \u201cpleasantness\u201d as longitude and \u201cbodily reaction\u201d as latitude, you can imagine a \u201cmental map,\u201d with nodes that \u201cchart\u201d knowledge of emotion.<\/p>\n<p>The neural mechanisms giving rise to this configuration, however, have remained unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well established in psychology that humans conceptualize emotions by features known as valence (the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness) and arousal (the intensity of bodily reactions, such as rapid breathing or a racing heart). If you think of \u201cpleasantness\u201d as longitude and \u201cbodily reaction\u201d as latitude, you can imagine a \u201cmental map,\u201d with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}