 ... pleasure of the smiling, or frowns for the pleasure of the frown ? Who blushes to escape the discomfort of not blushing? Or who in anger, grief, or fear is actuated to the movements which he 'makes by the pleasures which they yield ? In all these...  The Quarterly Journal of Economics - Page 380edited by - 1919Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 608 pages
...the pleasure of the frown ? . . . In all these cases the movements are discharged fatally by the vis a tergo which the stimulus exerts upon a nervous system framed to respond in just that way. . . . The impulsive quality of mental states is an attribute behind which we cannot go. Some states of mind have... | |
 | William James - Electronic books - 1892 - 508 pages
...the pleasures which they yield ? In all these cases the movements are discharged fatally by the vis a tergo which the stimulus exerts upon a nervous system...this peculiar sort of impulsive power. The impulsive qualify of mental states is an attribute behind which we cannot go. Some states of mind have more of... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 1892 - 506 pages
...the pleasures which they yield ? In all these cases the movements are discharged fatally by the vis a tergo which the stimulus exerts upon a nervous system...our senses, or whether they be merely represented ic idea, have this peculiar sort of impulsive power. The impulsive quality of mental states is an attribute... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 1892 - 518 pages
...the pleasures which they yield ? In all these cases the movements are discharged fatally by the vis a tergo which the stimulus exerts upon a nervous system...the occasions of our tears and smiles, whether they he present to our senses, or whether they be merely represented in idea, have this peculiar sort of... | |
 | Durant Drake - Conduct of life - 1914 - 480 pages
...the pleasures which they yield? In all these cases the movements are discharged fatally by the vis a tergo which the stimulus exerts upon a nervous system framed to respond in just that way. . . . The impulsive quality of mental states is an attribute behind which we cannot go."1 It is not true, then,... | |
 | William James - 1918 - 720 pages
...the pleasures which they yield ? In all these cases the movements are discharged fatally by the vis a tergo which the stimulus exerts upon a nervous system...respond in just that way. The objects of our rage, lore, or terror, the occasions of our tears and smiles, whether they be present to our senses, or whether... | |
 | William James - Psychology - 2007 - 713 pages
...the pleasures which they yield? In all these cases the movements are discharged fatally by the via a tergo which the stimulus exerts upon a nervous system...this peculiar sort of impulsive power. The impulsive qmlity of mental states is an attribute behind which we cannot go. Some states of mind have more of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1894 - 614 pages
...emotional expression ' the movements are discharged fatally by the vis a tergo which the stimulus exerts on a nervous system framed to respond in just that way. The objects of our rage, love and terror have this peculiar sort of impulsive power. The impulsive quality of mental states is an... | |
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