Recently I made the comment that I found the James-Lange theory of emotions very wise. Henry followed up, asking whether I was aware of contemporary work that supported that 1880s-era view. I said "yes," and offered this link: Luca Barlassina . That's an article published just this year by Dr. Barlassina, a scholar affiliated with Ruhr-Universitat Bochum's Center for Mind, Brain, and Cognitive Evolution, written with the assistance of Dr. Albert Newen, who has a chair at the same Center. Barlassina and Newen (B&N) title their paper "The Role of Bodily Perception in Emotion: In Defense of an Impure Somatic Theory." Some definition of terms is then in order. A "somatic theory" is one that says that the body [that is, to avoid triviality, the set of non-brain portions of the body] plays a critical role in causing emotions (not just in expressing them). B&N explicitly cite James as an early theorist of this sort and they add ano...