You just finished a cup of very strong coffee at a cafe, which causes your body to have a general feeling of sustained arousal. As you leave the café, you walk past a cemetery where several people are crying at a graveside
According to Schachter and Singer, which of the following would most likely occur?
a) You would feel an emotion of happiness despite the scene at the graveside.
b) You would work very hard to control your emotion.
c) You would feel an emotion of sadness because the context would affect your labeling.
d) Your emotional state would be impossible to predict.
ANS: C, According to Schachter and Singer, the coffee would arouse you and, then, after witnessing the graveside crying, you would label your emotion as sadness based on that environmental cue.
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