Dutton and Aron (1974)interviewed subjects who had just crossed one of two types of bridges-a safe one and a dangerous one.What did they find?
A)Males misattributed their arousal to a female confederate.
B)Males misattributed their arousal to the bridge.
C)No support for the two-component theory of love.
D)Evidence for the effects of attitude similarity on attraction.

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Dutton and Aron (1974) found that males who had just crossed a dangerous bridge were more likely to misattribute their arousal to a female confederate who interviewed them, rather than to the actual cause, which was the high, precarious bridge they had crossed. This supports the misattribution of arousal theory.

Dutton and Aron (1974)interviewed Subjects Who Had Just Crossed One