Emotions -- James/Lange association

[From Chris Cherpas (961010.1307 PT)]
  [re: >Bill Powers (961010.0915 MDT)]

..we feel the emotions most strongly when the action needed to
correct the initiating error is ineffective, or even worse, impossible to
carry out. The most frustrating situation is the one in which we are all
ready, behaviorally and biochemically, to take a drastic action, but are
stopped from even trying to take it because of conflicting goals. In
general, we feel the emotion the most strongly when the error doesn't get
corrected.

If I recall correctly, the "James/Lange theory of emotion"
was based on this very observation: emotions are experienced
when action is blocked.

Regards,
cc