TY - JOUR
T1 - Construct accessibility and the misattribution of arousal
T2 - Schachter and Singer Revisited
AU - Sinclair, Robert C.
AU - Hoffman, Curt
AU - Mark, Melvin M.
AU - Martin, Leonard L.
AU - Pickering, Tracie L.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Norman Brown, Gary Dunbar, Mike Enzle, William Estes, Rachel Foster, Kama Jamieson, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments, and Amy Irvin, Sonja Bernstein, John Jarema, Mark Stimson, Becky Gibson, Susan Clark, and Geddy for their assistance in data collection Special thanks to Dean Paquette for his aid in creating and pilot-testing the primes The research was supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant 410 930122 to the first author
PY - 1994/1
Y1 - 1994/1
N2 - Schachter and Singer (1962) showed that people search the immediate environment for emotionally relevant cues to label and interpret unexplained physiological arousal We investigated how unobtrusively activated cognitions and physiological arousal interact to produce emotional experience when the immediate environment is devoid of relevant cues Subjects were primed with positive, negative, or neutral concepts They then either exercised or sat still and, either immediately or after a delay, rated their emotional state Consistent with what Schachter and Singer found, subjects in the exercise, delayed-rating condition, who lacked an obvious explanation for their arousal, made the most extreme affective self-ratings, which were consistent with the valence of the primed concepts These subjects apparently interpreted their residual arousal in terms of the primed concepts Subjects in the exercise, immediate-rating condition, who had an explanation for their arousal (i e, the exercise), were not influenced by the primes Subjects in the no-exercise condition showed typical priming effects, with prime-consistent self-ratings that decayed over time Implications for emotion formation, misattribution of arousal, and cognition are discussed.
AB - Schachter and Singer (1962) showed that people search the immediate environment for emotionally relevant cues to label and interpret unexplained physiological arousal We investigated how unobtrusively activated cognitions and physiological arousal interact to produce emotional experience when the immediate environment is devoid of relevant cues Subjects were primed with positive, negative, or neutral concepts They then either exercised or sat still and, either immediately or after a delay, rated their emotional state Consistent with what Schachter and Singer found, subjects in the exercise, delayed-rating condition, who lacked an obvious explanation for their arousal, made the most extreme affective self-ratings, which were consistent with the valence of the primed concepts These subjects apparently interpreted their residual arousal in terms of the primed concepts Subjects in the exercise, immediate-rating condition, who had an explanation for their arousal (i e, the exercise), were not influenced by the primes Subjects in the no-exercise condition showed typical priming effects, with prime-consistent self-ratings that decayed over time Implications for emotion formation, misattribution of arousal, and cognition are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1994.tb00607.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1994.tb00607.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84965378461
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 5
SP - 15
EP - 19
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 1
ER -