Schachter and Singer (1962) (in their study in which subjects were injected with epinephrine, but thought they were getting the vitamin "suproxin") demonstrated that:

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Schachter and Singer's study showed that when subjects experienced physiological arousal for which they did not have a ready explanation, they were more likely to interpret their feelings in terms of external cues. In this case, since the subjects believed they had been injected with a vitamin, they interpreted their arousal as excitement due to being in the presence of another person (the experimenter) rather than as a result of the drug injection. This supports choice C, which states that physiological arousal for which we have no ready explanation will often be interpreted in terms of external cues.

Schachter and Singer (1962) (In Their Study in Which Subjects