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Comparing Theories of Emotion

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Comparing emotion theories means running one episode through each account and identifying where their predictions diverge.

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One episode — a sudden loud bang in a quiet office — run through all four theories in order, each stating what happens first, what causes what, and what it predicts about a person with reduced autonomic feedback. Ends by naming the one prediction on which the theories genuinely differ and could be tested apart.