Cognitive,social and physiological determinants of emotional state #4

Apparatus

-private room -epinephrine -placebo -paper -wastebasket -manila folders -hula hoop -ambiguous questionnaires

Explanation

-EPI INF: should not copy behavior of stooge -placebo: should not copy behavior of stooge -EPI MIS: copy behavior of stooge -EPI IGN: copy behavior of stooge

Design

-independent groups

Controls

-injection -same procedure -stooges repeated behavior -2 observers

Method

-laboratory experiment -observation -self report questionnaires

Participants and sampling

-male college students taking introductory psych -extra credit on exam

Aims

1. If a person is physiologically aroused and there is no reason the arousal would be a particular emotion based on the information available 2. If a person is physiologically aroused and there is a reason there is no need for more information to label 3. If there is no physiological arousal then any cognition is dismissed and there is no emotion

Conclusions

All 3 aims were supported so the findings were evidence for the two factor theory.

Variables

IV -EPI INF -EPI MIS -EPI IGN Control -placebo DV -observation -self report

Authors

Schachter and Singer (1962)

Background

Schachter proposed the two factor theory of emotion that emotion is the result of both physiological and psychological components (1959)

Approach

physiological psychology