James–Langen.
/ˈdʒeɪmzˈlaŋə/ Psychology.
Used attributively to designate a theory propounded by James and Lange separately that the response to an emotional stimulus is, in the first place, an organic reaction rather than a mental awareness of the emotion.
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1909 H. R. Marshall Consciousness i. App. A. 109 It is not correct to say either that the emotions cause the instinctive reaction..nor to say that the instinctive reactions cause the emotions, as the common statement of the James–Lange theory implies.
1914 M. Prince Unconscious xiv. 423 The James–Lange theory is disregarded here as untenable.
1918 E. Jones Papers on Psycho-anal. (ed. 2) xxvii. 485 The occurrence of the abortive anxiety attacks..stands in direct conflict with the James–Lange hypothesis.
1933 G. Murphy Gen. Psychol. v. 75 Such evidences might even lead to a partial confirmation of the James–Lange view.
1949 D. O. Hebb Organization of Behavior x. 237 Just such an inconsistency of thought has led to an endless, and pointless, debate on the James–Lange theory of emotion.
1970 H. C. Shands Semiotic Approaches to Psychiatry xx. 307 The James–Lange notion is an interpretation of a communicational process involving feedback from one's own behavior.
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