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A Behaviorist Analysis of Emotions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

V. J. McGill  and
Livingston Welch
V. J. McGill
Affiliation:
Hunter College and The Institute for Research in Clinical and Child Psychology, Hunter College, New York
Livingston Welch
Affiliation:
Hunter College and The Institute for Research in Clinical and Child Psychology, Hunter College, New York
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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 (1) and to neglect some of the genetic and adaptive aspects of emotion which had been discussed by Darwin (3).

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1946 , pp. 100 - 122
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1946

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