In one experiment,college men were injected with epinephrine before spending time with either a joyful or an irritated person.The results of this experiment support the idea that
A) some emotions can be experienced apart from cognition.
B) there are subtle but distinct physiological differences among the emotions.
C) our experience of emotion depends on how we interpret the body's arousal.
D) happiness is largely a function of right frontal lobe activation.

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This experiment supports the idea that our experience of emotion depends on how we interpret the body's arousal, as the injection of epinephrine (which increases physiological arousal) influenced the participants' emotional experiences depending on whether they were exposed to a joyful or irritated person. This suggests that our interpretation of physiological arousal influences the emotions we experience.

In One Experiment,college Men Were Injected with Epinephrine Before Spending