How do historical approaches to emotion differ from modern theories of emotion?
● According to the James-Lange theory, we experience emotion because we are aware of our bodily response to an emotion-producing stimulus.
● The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion proposed that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and subjective experience of emotions.
● Schachter’s two-factor theory proposes that the experience of emotion is produced by a combination of physical arousal and how we cognitively identify the arousal.
● Zajonc’s brain research indicates that our interpretations (cognitive labels) sometimes come after our emotional experience.
● Lazarus agrees with Zajonc that some emotional responses do not require conscious thought but argues that emotional responses are influenced by unconscious thinking.
