William James and Carl Lange thought that it is the physical actions and reactions that determine the subjective experience of an emotion. James focused on the physiological aspect of emotion, saying that we are afraid because we run and we are excited because we shout. Lange’s ideas were close to James’s but Lange took it further into autonomic responses. He said not only are we afraid because we run but we are afraid because our heart is beating fast.
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