PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -As you run from the attacking tiger, your sympathetic nervous system is activated. Your brain evaluates your surroundings and determines from the large animal racing toward you that you are, in fact, afraid, and not excited.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to the theory, when an event stimulates a person (arousal), the autonomic nervous system (ANS) reacts by creating physiological manifestations such as faster heart beat, more perspiration, increased muscular tension, and more. Once these physical events occur, the brain will interpret these reactions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The James-Lange theory of emotion would argue that these physiological reactions are characteristic of anger. Thus, the person experiencing these symptoms may feel angry as a direct response to these reactions and behave accordingly.

Detailed explanation-4: -Our experience of emotion depends on autonomic arousal and our cognitive interpretation of that arousal. Different patterns of autonomic activation lead to our experience of different emotions. We experience emotion when the thalamus sends signals simultaneously to the cortex and to the autonomic nervous system.