PSY 3061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Psychopathy, Disinhibition, Lie Detection
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James-lange: emotions we subjectively experience are caused by bodily changes. Fear, surprise, and anger, all tend to be accompanied by sympathetic arousal not only caused by fear: bodily changes and subjective experiences happen simultaneously, and are independent of one another (neither causes other). I see a snarling bear, both my brain and body recognize this as threat, ergo. Bodily changes are separate from thought, however, it"s possible to. Experiment: subjects injected with adrenaline, randomly assigned to groups (adrenaline affect physiology with thought. associated with stress response): happy confederate in the room, angry confederate in the room. People paired with happy person reported feelings associated with positive emotions. People paired with negative person reported feelings associated with negative emotions. Thus, one"s cognitive attribution of physiological arousal matters too. The folk, james-lange, cannon-bard, and schachter models are all right or all wrong the real truth is probably some happy medium.
