You hear footsteps behind you and you begin to tremble, your heart beats faster, and your breathing deepens. You then experience fear.ĮXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at night. You notice these physiological changes and interpret them as your body's preparation for a fearful situation. If the arousal is not noticed or is not given any thought, then we will not experience any emotion based on this event.ĮXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at night.
Only after our interpretation of the arousal can we experience emotion. The James-Lange theory of emotion argues that an event causes physiological arousal first and then we interpret this arousal. Emotion is a complex psycho-physiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical (internal) and environmental (external) influences.
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