Regarding Valins's experiment in which male subjects were given phony feedback about their heart rate responses to slides of nude females, which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. The male subjects who heard the false heart beat consistently rated the slides paired with a "pounding heart"
as the most attractive.
b. The results of this experiment demonstrate the effects of attribution on emotions.
c. The male subjects, in order to explain their apparent arousal, came to believe that the slides they selected during the phony rapid heart beat were really the most attractive.
d. Valins' theory is most similar to the Cannon­Bard theory of emotion.

ANSWER: d

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