James–Lange theory of the emotions.
Independently advanced by Carl G. Lange in 1885 and by William James in 1884, it holds that an emotion is the experience of an appropriate physical response to external stimuli. Sadness and anger don't make us cry and strike, rather they are the feeling of doing so. Typical of a note of ‘phenomeno-logical materialism’ in James, like his substitution of the ‘I breathe’, as the accompaniment of all consciousness, for the ‘I think’.... ...
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