"The act of describing a feeling such as anger may have a significant impact on the body's physiological response to the situation that elicits the emotion, according to research published June 5 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Karim Kassam from Carnegie Mellon University and Wendy Mendes from the University of California San Francisco...."
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-angry-emotional-situations-heart-cardiac.html
Kassam KS, Mendes WB (2013) "The Effects of Measuring Emotion: Physiological Reactions to Emotional Situations Depend on whether Someone Is Asking." PLOS ONE 8(6): e64959. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064959
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