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Unit 7 · Personality, Motivation, Emotion, Stress & Coping Psychology · Dec 2020/June 2021 · Nov 2021

Who among the following proposed that different emotional stimuli induce different patterns of ANS activity and that these different patterns produce different emotional experiences?

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Correct answer: A. James–Lange

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The James–Lange theory says each emotion has a distinct pattern of bodily (ANS) arousal, and perceiving that pattern is the emotion.

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