In an experiment, Jay and Alissa are injected with the same concentration of a harmless drug. The purpose of the drug is to create arousal in the subjects who are injected. After a while, the arousal manifests as anger in Jay and as happiness in Alissa. Jay felt angry that he was injected with an unknown substance but Alissa was happy to be a part of the experiment. These experimental findings

can be explained by the _____.

A) cognitive-dissonance theory
B) Cannon-Bard theory
C) cognitive-appraisal theory
D) James-Lange theory

C

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