Practice question · True or false
Under two-factor theory an emotion needs both physiological arousal and a cognitive label; neither alone produces it.
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- What did Schachter and Singer manipulate?
- Adrenaline plus an explanation.
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Why
True. Schachter and Singer gave adrenaline with or without an explanation and varied the social cue: arousal alone produced no specific emotion, and a label with no arousal produced none either. It is why the same racing heart is read as fear on a bridge and attraction in company.
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