Lee was momentarily terrified as a passing automobile nearly sideswiped his car.When one of his passengers joked that he almost had a two-color car,Lee laughed uncontrollably.Lee's emotional volatility best illustrates the
A) Cannon-Bard Theory.
B) Concealed Information Test.
C) James-Lange theory.
D) spillover effect.

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The spillover effect refers to the phenomenon where arousal from one event can influence our response to a subsequent event, in this case, Lee's intense arousal from the near-accident spilling over and intensifying his reaction to the joke.

Lee Was Momentarily Terrified as a Passing Automobile Nearly Sideswiped