A behaviorist analysis of emotions

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Philosophy of Science 13 (April):100-122 (1946)
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Since James defined emotion as consciousness of bodily reactions and Cannon and others detailed the nature of these reactions, there has been an increasing tendency among behaviorists to equate emotions with visceral reactions and to neglect some of the genetic and adaptive aspects of emotion which had been discussed by Darwin.

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Conditioned Reflexes.I. P. Pavlov - 1927 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 17 (4):560-560.
Conditioned emotional reactions.John B. Watson & Rosalie Rayner - 1920 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 3 (1):1.
Physiological differentiation of emotional states.Magda B. Arnold - 1945 - Psychological Review 52 (1):35-48.
The Mind-Body Problem in the Light of Recent Psychology.V. J. McGill - 1945 - Science and Society 9 (4):335 - 361.

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