...the very beginning that his emotion theory goes contrary to the common-sense belief about feelings: The bodily changes follow directly the PERCEPTION...of the same changes as they occur IS the emotion. Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run;...

...visceral stirring. Thus he concluded that bodily changes make up all moods, affections, and passions: "bodily changes follow directly the perception of...of the same changes as they occur is the emotion." To the commonsense saying that we weep because we are sad, strike because we are angry, flee because...

...Principles of Psychology (1890) 1950:Vol. 2, 110. s My theory. . . is that the bodily changes follou' directly the perception of the exciting fact, and...of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. Commonsense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run;...

...fundamentally social constructions and the view William James advocated historically. James hypothesizes that The bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and . . . our feelings of the same changes as they occur IS the emotion. Common-sense says, we lose our...

...called emotion, and that this latter state of mind gives rise to the bodily expression. My thesis is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception...of the same changes as they occur is the emotion" ("What is an Emotion?" Mind, 9 [18841; reprint in The Emotions, ed. Knight Dunlop [Baltimore: Williams...

..."My thesis," James wrote in 1884 (and reiterated in 1890, merely substituting theory for thesis), "is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception...of the same changes as they occur is the emotion" (p. 247; PR, p. 1065 [BC, p. 352]). 24 This thesis, popularly known as the James-Lange theory because...

...feeling. 'Bodily changes', he proclaims, 'follow directly the PERCEPTION of the exciting fact, and ... our feeling of the same changes as they occur, is the emotion' (1884: 189). Emotions visibly move us, particularly the 'coarse emotions', in bodily ways - from trembling...

...psychologist William James promoted the idea that "the bodily changes" which accompany emotion and "our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion ... Moods, affectations, and passions., are in very truth constituted by, and made up of, those bodily...

...and that this latter state of mind give rise to the bodily expression. My theory, on the contrary, is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception...of the same changes as they occur IS the emotion. Common-sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run;...

...bodily changes, of weeping, of running, and so forth. James said (emphasizing his proposal by italics) that: "the bodily changes follow directly the perception...of the same changes as they occur IS the emotion' (James, 1890, p. 449). According to this idea, an emotion is a perception, an outcome, not a mental...