Miller has been watching a very exciting adventure movie at the theater.His heart rate is still a little elevated as he leaves the cinema.Just as he reaches his car in the parking lot,he sees someone accidentally bump his car as they back out of another parking space.Miller becomes extremely agitated and excitedly begins yelling and pounding on the other person's car fender.This extreme reaction to a relatively minor annoyance can best be explained by .

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The excitation transfer theory suggests that arousal from one event can carry over and intensify the emotional response to a subsequent event. Miller's elevated heart rate from the movie may have contributed to his extreme reaction to the car incident.

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