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emotion
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a feeling state characterized by physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and a cognitive interpretation
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James-Lange theory
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The theory that emotion stems from the physiological arousal that is triggered by an emotion-eliciting stimulus
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Cannon-Bard Theory
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The theory that an emotion-eliciting stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological arousal and the experience of emotion
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Sympathetic nervous system
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branch of the ANS which prepares the body for fight or flight
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Polygraph
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An electronic device that records multiple channels of autonomic arousal and is often used as a lie-detector test
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facial-feedback hypothesis
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The hypothesis that changes in facial expression can produce corresponding changes in emotion
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Two factor theory of emotion
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The theory that emotion is based both on physiological arousal and a cognitive interpretation of that arousal
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misattribution
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An explaination that shifts the percieved cause of arousal from the true source to another one
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Counterfactual thinking
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imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened but did not
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Affective forecasting
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The process by which people predict how they would feel in the future after various positive and negative life events.
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Social-comparison theory
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The theory that people evaluate themselves by making comparisons with others
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Adaptation level theory
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The theory that people evaluate experiences in relation to current levels to which they have become accustomed.
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