Theories of Emotion The definition for emotion is a mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes. A lot of theories have been brought up about emotion. Three of them are James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, and the Two Factor Theory. One way to explain each of these is to explain how a tranquilizer that inhabits the sympathetic nervous system will, in most cases, reduce people?s experience of …showed first 75 words of 403 total…

…showed last 75 words of 403 total…a situation doesn?t make complete sense. If you are erratic and not fully with it, then given a tranquilizer, which ends up calming you down - the theory is out of sync. It is harder to prove that you need to be both physiologically aroused and aware of the arousal-taking place, at the same time, then it is to say that one thing leads to another, as was done in the other two theories.