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Unit 7 · Personality, Motivation, Emotion, Stress & Coping Psychology · June 2020 · 25 Sep 2020, Shift 1

In the famous experiment by Schacter and Singer involving epinephrine, what was found to govern the emotions?

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Correct answer: C. Both cognitive appraisal and physiological arousal

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Schachter & Singer's two-factor theory: emotion depends on physiological arousal plus a cognitive label (appraisal) of that arousal.

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