theories of emotion

James-Lange

our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to an emotion-arousing stimulus

Cannon-Bard

an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion

Schachter-Singh

to experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

Zajonc-LeDoux

we do not always need to interpret arousal before experiencing an emotion; we actually have many emotional reactions apart from, or even before, our conscious interpretation of a situtation

Richard Lazarus

our brain processes vast amounts of information without our conscious awareness; some emotional responses don’t need cognitive thinking