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 James-Lange theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This theory was challenged in the 1920s by psychologists such as Walter Cannon and Philip Bard, who theorized that physiological changes are caused by emotions(collectively known as the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion.
This theory states that emotions are a direct result of an analysis of the surroundings.
The theory states that within human beings, as a response to experiences in the world, the autonomic nervous system creates physiological events such as muscular tension, a rise in heart rate, perspiration, and dryness of the mouth.
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 William James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James is one of the two namesakes of the James-Lange theory of emotion, which he formulated independently of Carl Lange in the 1880s.
James studied medicine, physiology, and biology, and began to teach in those subjects, but was drawn to the scientific study of the human mind at a time when psychology was constituting itself as a science.
William James, with his younger brother Henry James (who became a prominent novelist) and sister Alice James (who is known for her posthumously published diary), received an eclectic trans-Atlantic education, developing fluency in both German and French languages along with a cosmopolitan character.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_James   (3058 words)

  
 Theory Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research)
In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations made that is predictive, logical and testable.
A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena, which originates from and/or is supported by experimental evidence (see scientific method).
A theory in this sense is a set of statements in a formal language, which is closed upon application of certain procedures called rules of inference.
www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Theory   (1703 words)

  
 s10.txt
The theory that proposes that in an emotion, physiological arousal occurs first, followed by a cognitive interpretation of the environment and an appropriate labeling of an emotion, is the ____________ theory of emotion.
The theory that proposes that emotion involves a chain reaction, including stimulus event, cognition, feeling, and behavior related to survival, is the ____________ functional theory of emotion.
The cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion proposes that emotion can best be understood by examining the individual's cognitive appraisal, motivational goals, and relationship to his or her environment.
www.dushkin.com /connectext/psy/ch10/s10.txt   (3425 words)

  
 James-Lange Theory of Emotion
This is not a new theory and was proposed in 1884 and combined the ideas of William James and Danish physiologist Carl Lange, who largely independently arrived at the same conclusion.
Explanations > Theories > James-Lange Theory of Emotion
It was largely supplanted by the Cannon-Bard theory, but of late, it has made something of a come-back, although the notion of causality is not as strong and there is ongoing uncertainty as to the chicken-and-egg question of which comes first, physiological and emotional feelings.
changingminds.org /explanations/theories/james_lange_emotion.htm   (349 words)

  
 Emotion
James and Lange suggested that emotions were primarily responses to situations.
James’s theory is difficult to verify experimentally because it attempts to explain feelings of emotion.
A theory of emotion that suggests that behaviors and physiological responses are directly elicited by situations and that feelings of emotions are produced by feedback from these behaviors and responses.
www.albany.edu /faculty/cafrye/apsy601/ch10emote.html   (6263 words)

  
 SVSU
Using James’ explanation of instincts as a foundation, the James-Lange theory of emotional arousal can be better understood.  According to James, by instinct, bodily changes or reflexes immediately follow the perception of an exciting stimuli and the individual’s feeling of these changes is an emotion (James, 1890, p.
Why do such differences exist between the two theories?  It appears that many of the differences result from the time that elapsed between James and Damasio.  William James was born in 1842 and died in 1910 (Smith, 1985, p.
James (1890) proposed that there are two different classes of emotions: coarse and subtle (pp.
www.svsu.edu /writingprogram/emotion/braun-harris-01.htm   (1113 words)

  
 James, William
In his classic Principles of Psychology 1890, James introduced the notion of the 'stream of consciousness' (thought, consciousness, or subjective life regarded as a flow rather than as separate bits), and propounded the theory of emotions now known as the James-Lange theory.
James wrote extensively on abnormal psychology and had much to contribute to the study of the paranormal.
He was the brother of the novelist Henry James.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/J/James/1.html   (141 words)

  
 Oskar Lange
Lange became one of the leading lights of the "Paretian Revival" in general equilibrium theory during the 1930s.
Lange's argument was one of the pivots of the Socialist Calculation Debate with the Austrian School.
Although Lange flourished at the University of Chicago, he was not, of course, a member of the its more narrowly-defined "school".
cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/lange.htm   (842 words)

  
 Classics in the History of Psychology -- Introduction to James (1890) by R. H. Wozniak
In what was to become known as the James-Lange theory of emotion,[17] James then went on the argue that emotion consists of our experience of these bodily changes.
James was also an artist, with the artist's eye for shading and detail, and one of the English language's truly great prose stylists.[3] In The Principles these characteristics combined to yield some of the richest descriptions of human experience, human behavior, and human nature ever to appear in a work of non-fiction.
As a psychologist, James was as interested in and knowledgeable about the phenomena of psychopathology and exceptional mental states as he was in those of normal consciousness; and in The Principles he drew constantly from this material to enrich his analyses.
psychclassics.yorku.ca /James/Principles/wozniak.htm   (1364 words)

  
 James-Lange Theory of Emotions
For example, the James-Lange theory does not seem to differentiate between the sorts of physiological changes that are to be considered emotions and those that are not.
The James-Lange theory states that emotions are the perceptions of certain bodily changes.
William James once pointed out that under his theory one could say that a person feels sad because he weeps, not that he weeps because he feels sad.
www.iscid.org /encyclopedia/James-Lange_Theory_of_Emotions   (317 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Since Darwin’s theory of evolution was based on natural selection, then it would seem necessary that the emotions and their expressions were somehow increasing the survival rate of the human species or at least were somehow beneficial.
John Watson proposed a theory based on the emotional behaviors that Darwin observed as well as the theory of Pavlov’s “conditioned reflexes (Thompson, 1988, 270).” He thought that a stimulus produced a complicated pattern of many physiological responses at the same time (Thompson, 1988, 270).
Darwin’s theory on the evolution of emotions lacks a reason that emotions were passed on.
www.goshen.edu /~brandondy/emot.html   (3819 words)

  
 Spiritual Psychobiology
James mentions a second advantage to serious scientific concepts of death: we are forced to consider the issues on their own terms and come up with theories of the character of the other world and its relation to this world.
In a talk delivered at the turn of the century, James (1956) refers to Swedenborg's system and attempts to show that the concept of survival of consciousness after death is not contrary to scientific psychology, and especially, the accepted principle that consciousness is a function of the brain.
Despite the variety of theories and methods in psychology there is a general overlap among them, and this commonality may be taken as stable over the changing history of schools of psychology.
www.soc.hawaii.edu /leonj/leonj/leonpsy/instructor/gloss/psychobiology.html   (9327 words)

  
 Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: James, William (1842-1910)
James studied chemistry, physiology, and medicine at Harvard College, but was unable to settle on a career, his indecision intensified by physical ailments and depression.
William James was born in New York City to a wealthy, educated family that included the future novelist, Henry James, his younger brother.
James believed that psychology should be seen as closely linked to physiology and other biological sciences.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0001/ai_2699000185   (516 words)

  
 Where Do Emotions Come From?
James & Lange (or maybe it is the fault of the author - Carlson) have overlooked a major component to the individual's recognition of the emotion.
Perhaps, James and Lange meant it is the specific combination of physiological responses that determine the expression of emotion.
James and Lange would say that it is an production of your biological indicators -- red face, hand over face, curling into a ball.
www.macalester.edu /psychology/whathap/diaries/diariesf96/kristi/diary8.htm   (936 words)

  
 Floyd Henry Allport: A Physiological-Genetic Theory of Feeling and Emotion
A theory of the kind we have outlined must not be considered as excluding the possibility of characteristic cortical processes in emotional and affective states.
The first part of our theory then states that emotions are fundamentally distinguishable as pleasant and unpleasant, and that these two contrasted qualities are related to two mutually antagonistic processes whose effector movements in the viscera set up characteristic organic sensations which we call affective quality.
The present writer believes that this theory, though correct in principle, stops short of its goal in neglecting the rôle of the remainder of the autonomic apparatus and visceral effectors.
spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Allport/Allport_1922.html   (2601 words)

  
 Behaviorism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Behaviorism, thus construed, "is not a metaphysical theory: it is the denial of a metaphysical theory" and consequently "asserts nothing" (Ziff 1958: 136); at least, nothing positively metaphysical.
In accord with Pavlovian theory, then, given an animal's conditioning history behavioral responses (e.g., salivation) can be predicted to occur or not, and be controlled (made to occur or not), on the basis of laws of conditioning, answering to the stimulus-response pattern:
Quine, considered by many to be the greatest Anglo-American philosopher of the last half of the twentieth century, was a self-avowed "behaviorist," and such tendencies are evident in several areas of his thought, beginning with his enthusiasm for a linguistic turn (as Bergmann 1964 styled it: see Rorty 1967) in the philosophy of mind.
www.iep.utm.edu /b/behavior.htm   (7032 words)

  
 John Dewey: Theory of Emotion. (1) Emotional Attitudes
Here we have a crucial case; if the antithesis of the emotion determines the antithesis of expression, James's theory is, in so far, overthrown; if, on the other hand, the antithesis of 'expression' goes back to activities having their own ends, the ground is at least cleared for the discharge theory.
James calls it, the objectless emotion, but its content is controlled by the active attitudes previously assumed towards objects, and, from its own standpoint, it is not objectless; it goes on at once to supply itself with an object, with a rational excuse for being.
If the attitude is wholly accidental, then the emotion itself is brute and insignificant, upon a theory which holds that the emotion is the 'feel' of such an attitude.
spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Dewey/Dewey_1894a.html   (5462 words)

  
 James, St - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about James, St
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /James,+St   (64 words)

  
 Emotion Research: Cognitive and Experimental Psychology
This view is similar to the original James-Lange theory, where we run, therefore we feel afraid, except that the source of the data are the facial muscles, as opposed to the general state of the body and particular behavior.
Cannon (1927) criticized the James-Lange theory for failing to explain the wide variety of emotional responses from the relatively small number of categories of physiological states (essentially the same argument used by the cognitive appraisal theorists to require the disambiguating role of cognition).
These theories share with the cognitive appraisal theories the assumption that emotional states are too undifferentiated to provide information, but they differ in the source of this disambiguating information.
emotion.bme.duke.edu /Emotion/EmoRes/Psych/CogExp/Physio.html   (409 words)

  
 BIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
In the late 19th century, another influential theory of emotions besides that of Darwin was the James-Lange theory which was independently proposed by the American psychologist William James and the Danish physiologist Carl Lange.
The James-Lange theory says that every emotion is associated with a unique pattern of peripheral physiological changes mediated by the ANS, and the feedback from these changes in our bodies is what determines the feeling aspect of an emotion.
If the peripheral bodily changes involved in emotions are extended to include not only changes mediated by the ANS, but changes in patterns of skeletal muscle tension mediated by the somatic nervous system, then the James-Lange idea is consistent with the reports of patients who suffered locked-in syndrome.
www.hss.bond.edu.au /psyc12-214/lectures/week10notes.htm   (5411 words)

  
 Feelings
The James-Lange theory was originally purposed in 1884, it stated the exact opposite of what the previous thought on the mechanisms of emotion are; instead of the emotion occurring before the physiological changes, the James-Lange theory states that emotions occur in response to physiological changes in our bodies.
The Cannon-Bard theory covers it all, it is not as closed minded to different explanations as James-Lange, but it also seems to be an umbrella theory, leaving no explanation out in the cold, so that no matter what, it is right.
The theory further states that sensory inputs are received by the cerebral cortex which activates the body, but these are devoid of emotion.
www.macalester.edu /psychology/whathap/diaries/diariess98/shannonr/diary10_shannonr.html   (480 words)

  
 J.R. Tucker Psychology
James and Lange (a Danish physiologist) proposed the same explanation of emotion at about same time - thus the theory was named for both of them.
This theory made use of information about physiological structures not available to James and Lange.
Cannon's critique (1929) of James-Lange Theory - He indicated that some of the problems with the James-Lange theory were:
myschoolonline.com /page/0,1871,51520-187695-53-50806,00.html   (1112 words)

  
 Chapter6_Essaykp3.htm
JamesLange theory drew attention to bodily changes occurring in response to environmental events, and suggested that emotion is our feeling of the bodily changes that follow perception.
Discussion of the JamesLange theory of emotion, which stressed the importance of physiological mechanisms in the perception of emotion.
The first and most vociferous opposition to the JamesLange theory came from Walter Cannon (1915, 1927, 1931, 1932) in what has come to be known as the Cannon–Bard theory of emotion.
www.blackwellpublishing.com /intropsych/students/Chapter6_Essaykp3.htm   (532 words)

  
 Emotions
One extremely influential theory in the literature is the Valance Theory of emotion proposed by either Davidson or Tucker.
The Cannon-Bard theory was important for setting the stage for future studies of both physiological and cognitive studies of emotion.
All contemporary theories of emotion argue that the frontal lobes seem to be involved in the experience of emotion.
www.psych.ku.edu /psyc370/Emotion.html   (981 words)

  
 LeDouxlab Web-Quotes' authors
The alternative, he proposed, is a phenomenological theory, that addresses the signification of emotions, which, in his view, are an attempt to magically transform the world by acting on ourselves.
William James is considered by many the father of modern American psychology.
In his main work, the monumental, two-volume "Principles of Psychology," James described psychology as a 'natural science,' and developed his ideas about perception, attention, reasoning, the stream of consciousness and emotion, among other subjects.
www.cns.nyu.edu /home/ledoux/authors.html   (387 words)

  
 Lecture notes of Chapter 1
Cognitive labeling theory An individual's interpretation for physiological arousal determines the emotion experiences Cognitive thinking, subjective evaluation, and physiological arousal components are all necessary to emotional experiences Steps: Perception of emotion-provoking stimuli (see a bear) Body responses (heart palpitates) and brain labels body response Then emotion occurs (fear) (4).
Oponent-process theory Eeach individual's initial emotional reaction is soon replaced with an opposing (opposite) emotion.
Cannon-Bard theory Physiological responses and experience of emotion occurs simultaneously Steps: Perception of emotion-provoking stimuli (see a bear) Both body resposes (heart palpitation)and emotion occurs (fear) simultaneously (3).
www.humboldt.edu /~sh4/p104notech9.htm   (397 words)

  
 Chapter 10: EMOTION
Cannon’s objections are portrayed as ineffective and the section describes research supportive of the James-Lange theory.
Describe the supporting research for the James-Lange theory of emotion.
Section three covers the James-Lange theory of emotional feelings.
www.albany.edu /faculty/cafrye/apsy601/Chaptersummary10.html   (225 words)

  
 MIT Media Lab: Affective Computing Group
Cannon and Bard opposed the James-Lange theory by stating that the emotion is felt first, and then actions follow from cognitive appraisal.
Schachter and Singer agreed with James and Lange -- that the experience of emotions arises from the cognitive labeling of physiological sensation.
According to this theory, actions precede emotions and the brain interprets said actions as emotions.
affect.media.mit.edu /areas.php?id=emotions   (290 words)

  
 Fear & Loathing in the Brain
James-Lange theory: James & Lange proposed in the late 1800's and early 1900's a theory of emotion that seems backwards (and seems to be a behaviorist theory, pre-dating behaviorism).
He based this theory on two sorts of evidence: people with damage to the anterior n.
Note that this theory suggests a somewhat peripheral source of emotion.
www.albion.edu /psychology/fac_psyc/jwilson/psy348/Emotion.htm   (913 words)

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