Evidence that physiological arousal precedes emotion would be most consistent with the _______.

The James-Lange theory proposes that a stimulus causes physiological changes, and our perception of those changes produces the emotional experience. So evidence that arousal happens before emotion is most consistent with the James-Lange theory. The two-factor theory also involves arousal, but emphasizes interpreting or labeling that arousal to identify the emotion.

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