Hypertext notes on The Varieties of Religious Experience .
A James entry in the People section of the Sputnik Drug Information Zone. Jonathan Schull An essay on Jamesian psychology and Cognitive Science by Cosma Shalizi . Because of the dynamic nature of his views, James's psychology was given the name functionalism . Lange, a Danish physiologist, had argued that emotional processes are identical with changes in the circulatory system. James took this aspect of Lange's theory and incorporated it into his own theory, which holds that the emotional expeience is the result of the visceral changes arising from the individual's reacting to an emotion provoking experience.