Indeed, by the time that physicians were puzzling over that strange, apparently emotion-driven heart-attack in Massachusetts, veterinarians had already recognised stress-related cardiomyopathy in a tremendous variety of non-human species: elk, pronghorn sheep, moose, deer, scimitar-horned oryx, antelope, muntjac, wisent, gazelle, dugongs, and wild turkeys.
As Heather read Gidion's essay out loud, it was puzzling to watch the lack of emotion on Jones's face until, at the end of the essay, her reaction was repulsively shocking.
The puzzling situation prompted a tumbling of emotions, including a debilitating chill at the base of my spine and, before long, the feeling of spiders crawling up my vertebral column to fester in the nooks of my insecurity.
Now, you might think that this would be bad news, but no! Instead of everything breaking down, some puzzling combination of Coca Cola and positive emotions floods everyone's computer, and everything is great.
Furthermore, the concept of emotions is used to explain the puzzling findings on the oversupply of effort in experimental tournaments.
Perhaps a more puzzling finding of the recent study was that emotions and behaviors changed differently for male versus female mice.
When one listens to a sad piece of music, however, one knows there is nothing literally feeling an emotion of sadness, and thus it is puzzling that one should be made sad by the experience.
Neither pieces of music, nor performances of them, are psychological agents, thus it is puzzling that such things could be said to express emotions.
This seems puzzling, but William Cowper had a genius for reconciling extreme and uncontrollable emotion with patient appreciation of daily life.
I always find the word 'success' a funny, abstract and pretty puzzling one; a concept that conjures up all kinds of emotions and rigorous debate.
