... anxiety. The heart starts to beat at a much faster rate; however the body will show its response to the increased heart rate by the individual running and it is then that the brain can take into account the initial emotion of fear. He proposed that it is the body that sends the signals to the brain telling it how it should feel about the emotion and not vice versa. Both William James and Carl Lange (1967) proposed three main stages that are involved in producing an emotion: 1. The emotional stimulus which is presented to an individual for example a bear coming towards you 2. This produces bodily changes such as the arousal of the autonomic nervous system 3. The feedback which comes from these specific bodily changes leads to the experience of an emotion for example either fear or anxiety. Therefore from the three stages the James-Lange theory proposed that human emotions ...

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