In an experiment described in the textbook, male participants who had just crossed either a safe or dangerous bridge were interviewed by a female researcher and asked to write stories about an ambiguous picture that included a woman. The researchers found that the men who had crossed the dangerous bridge wrote ________ stories with sexual imagery and were ________ likely to call the female interviewer.

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The experiment, often associated with the misattribution of arousal, found that men who crossed the dangerous bridge wrote more stories with sexual imagery and were more likely to call the female interviewer, likely because their heightened arousal from the bridge was misattributed to the presence of the female interviewer.

In an Experiment Described in the Textbook, Male Participants Who