The Theories of Emotions

When it comes to emotions, we usually don’t even try to take an inside look at things enough to understand why we may act the way we do. We get so use to the fact that they are emotions and that is just the way it is with life that we just respect them as they come about. Although, emotions were not just accepted as emotions for William James, Carl Lange, Walter Cannon, Phillip Bard, and Stanley Schachter. These five men took it upon themselves to come up with three theories of emotions, the James-Lange Theory, the Cannon-Bard Theory, and lastly Schachter’s Cognitive Theory of Emotion.
For William James and Carl Lange life must have seemed somewhat different. Their theory the James-Lange theory went above and beyond to basically prove that common sense was wrong. They were out to prove that an arousal of the body was not the emotion to follow a first reaction given in an uncertain situation. The theory states that there are emotional feelings follow bodily arousal. This say...