When given a drug that produced general arousal, research participants placed in a room with a happy confederate described their emotional state as happy, while those placed in a room with an angry confederate described their emotional state as angry. Which theory of emotion best explains these results?

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Armani Beasley

4 June, 22:12

When given a drug that produced general arousal, research participants placed in a room with a happy confederate described their emotional state as happy, while those placed in a room with an angry confederate described their emotional state as angry. Which theory of emotion best explains these results?

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Elvis Henry · Answer 1

Answer:The Schachter-Singer Theory, also known as the Two-Factor theory

Explanation:

The Schachter-Singer Theory, which is also called the Two-Factor theory of emotion, states that our emotional experience is defined by our physiological arousal and our cognitively label of that arousal.

The environmental stimuli plays a huge role in determining why that physiological arousal or a physiological response is happening.

For example participants who are placed in an environment filled with a happy federate are able to cognitively label their physiological arousal or response as happy which is actual influenced by the happy environment.

Those with an angry Confederate cognitively label their physiological arousal as angry which Influenced by their environment filed with anger.