In One Experiment, College Men Were Injected with Epinephrine Before

question 397

Multiple Choice

In one experiment, college men were injected with epinephrine before spending time with either a joyful or an irritated person. The results of this experiment support the idea that

• A) some emotions can be experienced apart from cognition.
• B) there are subtle but distinct physiological differences among the emotions.
• C) our experience of emotion depends on how we interpret the body's arousal.
• D) emotions hover around a stable set point influenced by heredity.

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