An Experiment in Which Male Subjects Were Given Phony Feedback

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Multiple Choice

An experiment in which male subjects were given phony feedback about their heart rate responses to slides of nude females shows that

• A) perception of emotion is altered by misinformation about the effects of adrenaline.
• B) people are not easily fooled about their own emotional responses.
• C) physical arousal is unimportant to emotion.
• D) emotion is affected by the attribution of physical arousal.

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