Researchers conduct an experiment in which male participants are given a drug that makes them feel extremely happy.Participants in Group A are told that they will feel this way from the drug.Participants in Group B are not told about the effects of the drug.After the drug has taken effect,an attractive woman enters the room.According to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory,which group of participants is less likely to feel attracted to the woman,and why?
A) Group A, because they were already happy when they came to the experiment.
B) Group A, because they expected positive feelings from the drug.
C) Group B, because they identified the positive feelings later.
D) Group B, because they were not told about the effects of the drug.

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According to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory, emotions are composed of both physical arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal. In this case, both Group A and Group B experience physical arousal from the drug, but only Group A has a cognitive interpretation of that arousal as positive feelings. Therefore, Group A is more likely to attribute their positive feelings towards the woman to the drug rather than to her attractiveness, whereas Group B is more likely to feel attraction towards the woman since they have no alternative explanation for their physical arousal.

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