Theories of emotion
	• Theories of emotion have evolved over the last 100+ years.  In the late 19th Century, William James and Carl Lange developed a theory of emotion that held that: – Autonomic responses are reflex reactions that occur quickly, commencing, and sometimes finishing, before conscious perception of emotion occurs. – Emotional experience is the perception that arises from the autonomic changes.  In other words, emotional experience follows and reflects autonomic reactivity.