Friday, October 7, 2011

Theories of Human Emotion

Our second unit of study is the area of human emotion.  Emotion is an interesting phenomena - everyone has them, they often overlap one another and we often display them based on our own interpretation of events.   An interesting thing about emotion is that although we all display emotion from the cradle to the grave, we know very little about what causes them. 

So, here are the major theories: (I don't want to spoil the surprise so these wil be unveiled one at a time over the coming week.)

Evolutionary Theories

The James-Lange Theory

The Cannon-Bard Theory

Schachter and Singer’s Two-Factor Theory

Cognitive Appraisal

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