PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Facial Muscles, Effective Schools, Social Emotions

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

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Emotions are a mix of: bodily arousal (heart beating, expressive behaviors (quickened pace, conscious experience, including thoughts (is this a kidnapping?) and feelings (panic, fear, joy) Emotion: a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. James-lange theory: the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. Common sense says; we cry because we are sad, lash out because we are angry, Cannon-bard theory: the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously the james-lange theory tremble because we are afraid: first comes conscious awareness, then the feeling. We feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble. This idea was also proposed by danish psychologist carl lunge, therefore it is called. William james thought this commonsense view of emotion had things backward . Believed that the feeling followed the body"s response.