In the 1920s, physiologist Walter Cannon criticized the James-Lange theory of emotion by noting that:
A)physiological reactions are very different for different emotions.
B)our emotional reaction to a stimulus often occurs much faster than our physiological reaction to a stimulus.
C)when physiological changes are artificially induced, such as when a person is given a drug to speed up heart rate, the person almost immediately experiences the emotion of either fear or anger.
D)people who are paralyzed because of a spinal cord injury have a greatly reduced capacity to feel emotions.

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Cannon argued that our emotional response to a stimulus occurs too quickly to be the result of waiting for a physiological reaction. This contradicts the James-Lange theory, which suggests that our emotions result from our perception of bodily changes that happen in response to a stimulus.

In the 1920s, Physiologist Walter Cannon Criticized the James-Lange Theory