A famous study conducted by social psychologists Aron and Dutton, found that a female experimenter was most likely to be called by participants after they had walked across a scary, narrow bridge as opposed to after they had walked across a normal, stable bridge.This finding can be MOST easily explained by ____.

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Excitation transfer theory proposes that residual physiological arousal from one stimulus can enhance the emotional response to a subsequent unrelated stimulus. In this case, the participants experienced physiological arousal from walking across the scary bridge, which transferred to their emotional response towards the female experimenter, leading them to call her more often.

A Famous Study Conducted by Social Psychologists Aron and Dutton