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Creator (Definite): Otniel E. DrorDate: 2014
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Cited by T. Quick, 'Disciplining Physiological Psychology: Cinematographs as Epistemic Devices, 1897-1922', Science in Context 30 (4), pp. 423-474.
Description:'James’s Harvard colleague Walter B. Cannon’s Bodily Changes in Pain Hunger Fear And Rage (1915), a publication that set the tone for subsequent physiological work in the field, relied on kymographic recordings almost to the exclusion of other forms of evidence. This work re-affirmed Sherrington’s contention regarding the continuation of emotional expression following the dissociation of the brain from the body. Further, it compounded objections to James’s theory: quite different emotions, Cannon contended, produce physiologically similar effects; the physiological processes that accompanied emotional experience did not act quickly enough to provide ‘sensory’ information; and even when such visceral changes did in fact take place, the relevant emotion was not according to Cannon necessarily experienced (Wassmann 2014, 179-180; See also Dror 2014).'