2. Does your heart pound because you
are afraid…or are you afraid
because you feel your heart
pounding?
Theories of Emotion
3. Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological
responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
James-Lange
Theory of Emotion
Fear
(emotion)
Pounding
heart
(arousal)
Sight of
oncoming
car
(perception of
stimulus)
4. Emotion-arousing stimuli
simultaneously trigger:
physiological responses
subjective experience of
emotion
Cannon-Bard
Theory of Emotion
Sight of
oncoming
car
(perception of
stimulus)
Pounding
heart
(arousal)
Fear
(emotion)
5. To experience
emotion one must:
be physically aroused
cognitively label the
arousal
Schachter’s Two-Factor Theory of
Emotion
Cognitive
label
“I’m afraid”
Fear
(emotion)
Sight of
oncoming
car
(perception of
stimulus)
Pounding
heart
(arousal)
6. The brain’s shortcut for emotions
Cognition and Emotion