Chapter 9.9, Problem 1QFD

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The way in which observing the emotions of others under more normal circumstances (that is not in a drugged state) might affect a person’s own emotional state.

Introduction:

Stanley Schacher and Jerome Singer, in 1962 experimented and test the theory that states “emotions are established through the relation between the physiological state of arousal and the label or cognitive interpretation that is placed on the arousal by an individual”. The experiment is especially accounted for the different behaviors of the “angry” and “happy” man in both conditions.