PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cultural Diversity, Burarra, The Anatomy Of Dependence
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James-lange theory of emotions: our emotions are the physiological responses or bodily reverberations to stimuli in our worlds and these physiological responses were products of our autonomic nervous system such as heart rate, breathing and pupil dilation. Each emotion word is the description of a different bodily state. It suggests that people in all cultures should have the same emotional (embarrassment is the sensation of our body rushing to our faces). experiences and emotional experiences are universal. Two-factor theory of emotions: emotions were primarily our interpretations of those bodily responses (redirected from body to mind). Schacter and singer contended that emotion researchers had neglected to study people"s interpretations of their physiological sensations because the earlier studies and thought experiments had never separated people"s interpretations from their actual physiological sensations. There are other interpretations to a pounding heart apart from fear (love). People look at cues from their environment to help them label their physical sensations.
