Six Theories of Emotions

James Lange Theory

First you observe the event, then you feel a physological arrousal, finally you intepret event as an emotion.

Cannon-Bard Theory

First you observe the stimulus, then physcological response and experience the emotion at the same time.

Schachter Stimulus

First you observe the stimulus, then you experience a physcological response and a cognative apprasail (ie you think about it), then you finally experience the emotion.

Lazarus’s Cognitive Mediational Theory

First you experiece the stimulus, then you evalutate the situation and feel an approiate emotion, thne finally experience a physcial response

Facial Feeback Theory

Super Simple: Our own facial expression can affect our emotions. For example, if we smile we’ll feel happy.

Evolutionary Theory

We feel emotions due them being helpful for some purpose in our evolutionary history.