According to Schachter and Singer, the emotion experienced by participants who were injected with adrenaline and then exposed to a confederate of the experimenter who acted giddy was due to:

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

According to Schachter and Singer, the emotion experienced by participants in this study was due to the participant interpreting the arousal (caused by the injection of adrenaline) as happiness. The study found that participants who were informed about the effects of adrenaline did not experience the same emotional response as those who were not. This supports the idea that our emotional experiences are not solely determined by physiological responses, but rather by how we interpret and label those responses.

According to Schachter and Singer, the Emotion Experienced by Participants