Seneca's Philosophy compared to Lazarus Theory

Lazarus Theory states that a thought comes before every emotions or physiological arousal. His theory basically says that first you have to think about the event and just then experience the emotion. For example, when somebody announces that something sad happened, first you think about it and just then you experience the emotion of sadness and an physiological arousal such as crying.
                                          EVENT ---> THOUGHT ---> EMOTION
                                                                                   ---> AROUSAL

He expects the computer would work
 properly but it doesn't
 so he gets angry

Seneca's Philosophy on Anger says that anger is a philosophical problem and can be treated philosophically. He believes that the anger is caused by our high expectations because when the things don't go the way we want them to go, we get angry. Whereas when we have lower expectations we don't get angry because we do not really expect that it will go that well either. Seneca also says that poor people are less angry than rich people because they have less expectations on life and they got used to the hardships of life. On the other side, rich people have really high expectations and get angry whenever something doesn't go as they want it to go. Seneca also thinks that we should just accept some things that we cannot change. He compared us to a dog tied to a moving chariot because in order to maximize the its happiness, the dog has to follow the chariot. This relates to humans because if we want to be happy we should sometimes just follow and accept something that we are not able to change. If we were going to resist to follow, it would just bring hassles if we would resist to follow something that we cannot change.
Seneca's Philosophy relates to Lazarus Theory because both of them are about how thought can bring an emotion. In Seneca's Philosophy, the thought about how good it should have been brings the emotion of anger. If we did not have high expectations for something we would not get upset when it goes the other way we want it to go. In Lazarus Theory, the thought is involved in the process of feeling emotion because it says that first you have to think about the situation that happened and just then you  can experience the emotion.