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Emotions
Published in Mohamed Ahmed Abd El-Hay, Understanding Psychology for Medicine and Nursing, 2019
Some research supports the James–Lange theory. Brain imaging studies found that different primary emotions produce different patterns of brain activation (Vytal & Hamann, 2010). These results suggest that different experiences that generate emotion are associated with different physiological reactions (Levenson, 2014).
MRCPsych Paper A1 Mock Examination 5: Answers
Published in Melvyn WB Zhang, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger Ho, Ian H Treasaden, Basant K Puri, Get Through, 2016
Melvyn WB Zhang, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger CM Ho, Ian H Treasaden, Basant K Puri
Explanation: Two studies by Valins and Laird suggested that overt behaviour could lead to emotions without visceral changes. These two studies support the James–Lange theory. According to the James–Lange theory, the experience of emotion is based on the interpretation of bodily changes by the cortex. It is argued that the James–Lange theory emphasizes skeletal changes rather than visceral changes.
A Conceptual History of Anxiety and Depression
Published in Siegfried Kasper, Johan A. den Boer, J. M. Ad Sitsen, Handbook of Depression and Anxiety, 2003
The psychophysiological investigation of emotions continued along the lines of the James-Lange theory. In this context, Ax attempted to draw a distinction between the emotions of anxiety and anger on the basis of their peripheral physiological symptoms [219].
Brain mechanisms of HPA axis regulation: neurocircuitry and feedback in context Richard Kvetnansky lecture
Published in Stress, 2020
James P. Herman, Nawshaba Nawreen, Marissa A. Smail, Evelin M. Cotella
It is important here to consider the concept of emotion, since emotions drive both generation and interpretation of stressors. Early work in the field proposes that the physical responses are the root cause of emotions (the James-Lange theory of emotion; James, 1994). Although subsequently challenged (e.g. by Cannon, 1927), the physiology and emotion connection remains strong (James, 1994), and indeed has found new life in the somatic marker hypothesis championed by Damasio, which posits that physiological reactions can affect decision making (Damasio, 1996). The key feature to consider here is that emotions almost certainly occur in the context of stressors, and importantly that the physiological reactions occurring during stressors can be encoded as part of the interpreted emotion.
The Experience and Meaning of Repeated Self-Harm Among Patients Presenting to Irish Hospital Emergency Departments
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Kasturi Chakraborti, Ella Arensman, Dorothy Leahy
The present study focussed on the experience and meaning of engaging in repeated self-harm. As observed in this study, survivors of childhood sexual abuse had a distorted image and perception of their own body. This coincides with the James Lange theory of emotions which perceives emotion as a bodily reaction to emotive stimuli (in this case abusive incidents) (Critchley et al., 2004) wherein self-harm occurs to reduce the bodily reactions experienced by the individual due to the given stimulus. A systematic review conducted to assess the bodily sensations experienced during self-harm noted participants’ account of their experiences of dissociation and depersonalisation wherein the individual would feel as if the body they live in was unreal or imaginative (Hielscher et al., 2019).