Researchers conduct an experiment in which male participants are given a drug that makes them feel extremely happy. Participants in Group A are told that they will feel this way from the drug. Participants in Group B are not told about the effects of the drug. After the drug has taken effect, an attractive woman enters the room. According to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory, which group of participants is less likely to feel attracted to the woman, and why?

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Researchers conduct an experiment in which male participants are given a drug that makes them feel extremely happy. Participants in Group A are told that they will feel this way from the drug. Participants in Group B are not told about the effects of the drug. After the drug has taken effect, an attractive woman enters the room. According to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory, which group of participants is less likely to feel attracted to the woman, and why?

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Christian Boone · Answer 1

Group A, because they expected positive feelings from the drug.

Explanation:

In psychology, the two-factor theory was proposed by two different researchers named Jerome E. Singer and Stanley Schachter during 1962, and is considered as a theory which is based on "emotion" consisting two distinct factors including 'cognitive label' as well as 'physiological arousal'.

According to Schachter and Singer, when an individual experience or feels an emotion then specific physiological arousal happens or occurs and therefore he or she uses an immediate environmental cue to find "emotional cue" in order to signify the physiological arousal.