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Anxiety Theory, Research, and Intervention in Clinical and Health Psychology Theory 1. Techniques of emotional work Body (physical cognitive) Brain (think) Expressive (holding back) Anxiety Cognitive/ subjective (negative mood, worry, self-preoccupation) Physiological (chronic over arousal) Behavioral (avoidance) Theory 2. James- Lange theory Stimulus----------Body----------Emotion SNS is aroused, emotion comes after Anxiety The central notion of this theory, put forward by James (1884) and Lange (1885), is that an emotion-evoking stimulus produces both autonomic activity (heart rate increase, sweating, ect.) and changes in skeletal muscles (running, facial expressions, ect.). The theory holds that the subjective experience, or feeling, of emotion is then a direct result of these changes. No