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Cannon-Bard theory
The proposition that the quality of an emotion is determined by the pattern of stimulation sent from the thalamus to the cerebral cortex, and that the bodily expression of emotion is governed by ...
cognitive-appraisal theory
A theory of emotions according to which arousal provides the basis for any emotion, but the quality of the emotion is provided by the person's interpretation of its cause, the specific emotion that ...
emotion
(i-moh-shŏn)a state of arousal that can be experienced as pleasant or unpleasant. Emotions can have three components: for example, fear can involve an unpleasant subjective experience, an increase in ...
James–Lange theory of the emotions Reference library
T. L. S. Sprigge
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
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 ...
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William James
(1842–1910)American psychologist and philosopher. James was born into a wealthy New York family, and surrounded from an early age by a humanitarian, literary, and scholarly family life (his father ...
