 My theory, on the contrary, is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear,...  Religious Experience - Page 84by Wayne Proudfoot - 1987 - 290 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Paul Carus - 1893 - 720 pages
...feeling of the same changes , as they oecur, is the emotion. Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep ; we meet a bear, are frightened...strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we strike, cry, or tremble, because we are sorry, angry or fearful, as the case may be. Without the bodily... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, Howard Crosby Warren, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, John Broadus Watson, Carroll Cornelius Pratt, Theodore Mead Newcomb - 1895 - 744 pages
...critics have largely made their own difficulties, even on the basis of his ' slap-dash ' statement that " we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble." The very statement brings out the idea of feeling sorry, not of being sorry. On p. 452 (Vol. II) he... | |
 | Edward Lee Thorndike - 1901 - 252 pages
...feeling of these same changes as they occur is the emotion. j Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened...feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, 1 afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, 'or tremble because we are sorry, angry,... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - 1902 - 576 pages
...exciting fact, and . . . our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion " (ii, p. 449). " We feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and ... we [do not] cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful, as the case may be.... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 892 pages
...fact," wrote James in 1800, "and our feeling of the same changes as they occur te the emotion. . . . The more rational statement is that we feel sorry...tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful." The hypothesis rests upon three principal arguments: (1) There can be no doubt that "objects do excite... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1908 - 584 pages
...thesis that this order of sequence is incorrect, that the one mental state is not induced immediately by the other, that the bodily manifestations must...tremble, because we are sorry, angry, or fearful. . . . Without the bodily states following upon the perception, the latter would be purely cognitive... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 886 pages
...fact," wrote James in 1890, "and our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. . . . The more rational statement is that we feel sorry...tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful." The hypothesis rests upon three principal arguments : ( 1 ) There can be no doubt that "objects do... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1909 - 232 pages
...weep; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike; we meet a bear, are frightened and run, . . . the more rational statement is that we feel sorry...angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble." There is much to commend this theory. One could not remain angry long if he were lying flat on his... | |
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