Lee was momentarily terrified as a passing automobile nearly sideswiped his car.When one of his passengers joked that he almost had a two-color car,Lee laughed uncontrollably.Lee's emotional volatility best illustrates the

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The spillover effect refers to the tendency of one's emotional arousal to spill over into adjacent events, making one's emotional reactions to them stronger. In this case, Lee's emotional response (fear) to being nearly sideswiped spilled over into his subsequent laughter, which was amplified by the residual arousal from his earlier fear.

Lee Was Momentarily Terrified as a Passing Automobile Nearly Sideswiped