ABSTRACT
The importance to psychology as a whole of obtaining a tangible psycho-neural hypothesis of emotion can hardly be exaggerated. At the moment, investigators in the field of emotions find themselves at sea between the Scylla of James-Langeism, and the Charybdis of youthful-minded adventurers in psychological research who would persuade us to hoist the Jolly Roger, abandon all theories, and all previous results and undertake statistical correlations of how all people react under all possible circumstances. These young pirates urge the irrefutable thesis that no knowledge is absolute, and themselves conclude that any attempted formulation of disconnected emotional data into anything resembling scientific law must be nothing short of maudlin.
