PSYC18H3 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 - Bodily Changes and Emotions.docx
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In 1884 william james turned the field of research on emotions on its head. Most writers until that time had argued that the experience of an emotion follows the perception of an emotionally exciting event y emotional experience, in turn, generates emotion-related bodily changes. Within this formulation, emotion originates in the mind. James altered this sequence, locating the origins of emotional experience in the body. It is that every emotion, from anger to sympathy to the rapturous delight of hearing a favorite musician, involves a distinct bodily reverberation detected by the autonomic nervous system. The sympathetic branch increases heart rate, blood pressure, and cardiac output and shuts down digestive processes, to help the individual to engage in physically demanding actions. It increases heart rate, blood pressure, and cardiac output y this may account for chronic stress producing poor health outcomes.
