PSY494H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Amygdala, Homeostasis, Asphyxia
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What would grief be w/o its tears, its sobs, its suffocation of the heart, its pang in the breast bone? : emotions are embodied a purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity very prominent in late 1880s, 1st to combine physiology and philosophy w psychology, not an experimentalist, he was a powerful thinker. Bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. : what does james mean when he talks about bodily changes , you feel afraid because you"re shrieking, inversed the common sense, physiology (cid:224) emotional experience, he mentions ans activations, but also facial expressions and postural changes as comprising bodily reactions, bodily changes help us react in an adaptive way, motor programs, so it doesn"t make sense to james that fear would come before the bodily reactions.
