Which sequence of events in emotional responses is characteristic of the James-Lange theory of emotion?

a) stimulus --> emotion --> physiological changes
b) stimulus --> physiological changes --> emotion
c) physiological changes --> stimulus --> emotion
d) stimulus --> emotion AND physiological changes (simultaneous)


ANS: B, James and Lange came up with the idea that physiological changes occurred before the emotion.

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