ABSTRACT
One of the areas in which neural and behavioral studies were closely associated almost from the turn of the century, was that of feelings and emotions. As Sherrington expressed this in 1906: “Of points where physiology and psychology touch, the place of one lies at ‘emotions’ ” (p. 257). A little more than a decade after Charles Darwin’s Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (1872),2 William James, professor of philosophy at Harvard, and Carl Georg Lange, professor of medicine in Copenhagen, in independent papers, presented the first conceptual explanation of this relationship in what was promptly called the James-Lange theory of emotions.
