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How mood affects your body temperature

Posted by / January 1, 2014

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You know those little smilie faces you put in text messages, emoticons? A group of scientists at Aalto University have created a full-body emoticon by averaging participant responses to different emotions (you can see the experiment here). Besides being just plain cool, this research has some impact on the study of emotions in general, and how our body affects our emotions. See the full article for more.

Full story at NPR.

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  • i just want to know the scale of number used the one from -10 to 15 is measured with which unit , meaning if i want to get the celsius reading out of a human body at the mentioned regions how to convert it to that kind of scale ?

  • Spencer

    This is NOT based on body temperature. Do your research.