Theories%20of%20Emotion

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Theories of Emotion

• Does your heart pound because you are afraid...
  or are you afraid because you feel your heart
  pounding?

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Cannon-BardTheory of Emotion

• Emotion-arousing stimuli simultaneously triggers
• physiological responses
• experience of emotion

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James-Lange Theory of Emotion

• Experience of emotion is awareness of
  physiological responses to emotion-arousing
  stimuli

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James-Lange (cont.)

• Subjects report feeling more sad when viewing
  scenes of war, sickness, and starvation if their
  sad face muscles are activated.
• They also find comic strips funnier if their
  happy face muscles are activated.

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Schachters Two Factor Theory of Emotion

• To experience emotion one must
• be physically aroused
• cognitively label the arousal

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Arousal and Performance
Yerkes-Dodson Law

• Performance peaks at lower levels of arousal for
  difficult tasks, and at higher levels for easy or
  well-learned tasks

Performance level
Difficult tasks
Easy tasks
Low
Arousal
High
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Emotional Happiness is...
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Experiencing Emotion

• Does money buy happiness?