The Emergence of Emotion as an Object of Scientific Study

John Deigh

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Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology Philosophy and History of Science History of Emotions Research

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Emotion as an object of scientific study is commonly taken to be a state of arousal corresponding to, if not identified with, observable physiological changes. This paper examines how the notion of emotion as such a state of arousal came to be the dominant notion in experimental psychology at the end of nineteenth century. It locates its beginnings in Hume’s treatment of the passions in book II of A Treatise of Human Nature and explains its completion with James’s famous account of emotion in The Principles of Psychology. (JD)

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