PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Walter Bradford Cannon, Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System
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Liget when people compete against others and become envious of others" accomplishments. James lange proposed that our emotions are the physiological responses or bodily reverberations to stimuli in our world. Carl lange proposed that these physiological responses were products of our autonomic nervous system, such as changes in our heart rate, breathing, pupil dilation, tear secretion, blood flow to our skin, and stomach contractions. James-lange theory maintains that our bodies respond to stimuli in the world by preparing us to react in a survival-facilitating way (running away from a bear) and our emotions are our bodily changes that signal how we should behave. James felt that each emotion word that we have is a description of a different bodily state. People in all culture should have the same emotional experiences. This theory is named for the physiological signals and the interpretation of those signals, redirected the focus of emotions away from the physical body and into the mind.
