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Arhe Vaninetti
Research Methods & Statistics, PSY301, Pacific University, Oregon
March 16, 2023
Cognitive, Social, And Physiological Determinants Of Emotional State
Within Schachter & Singer’s (1962) study on the stages of emotion, they aimed to find that emotions are the result of physiological factors (neurological and bodily emotions), and cognitive interpretation of those physiological factors. The findings of this study supported the Two-Factor Theory of Emotion. Namely, the researchers hoped to establish that emotion is not a simultaneous event, but rather two distant bodily functions that happen in tandem (and may or may not match each other). Continue reading “Schachter & Singer (1962) Critique: “Cognitive, Social, And Physiological Determinants Of Emotional State””