Your friend, who is a psychology major, tells you, "I was at a party last night and during the party, my general level of arousal increased. Since everyone at the party was enjoying themselves, I assume I must have felt happy." What theory of emotion is your friend describing?

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Glenn Beasley

Social Studies

4 February, 00:57

Your friend, who is a psychology major, tells you, "I was at a party last night and during the party, my general level of arousal increased. Since everyone at the party was enjoying themselves, I assume I must have felt happy." What theory of emotion is your friend describing?

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Miah Ayers · Answer 1

Schachter-Singer

Explanation:

"Schachter-Singer theory of emotion" is also referred to as "two-factor theory of emotion" and was proposed by Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer. This theory of emotion is defined as a theory in which two different factors are required by an individual to experience emotion. The first factor is the environmental stimuli that ought to elicit a "physiological response" and then emotions felt by a person are being produced as a consequence of the "cognitive labeling" related to the emotion.

The correct answer is the Schachter-Singer theory of emotion.