Schacter-Singer's famous emotion experiment showed that:
A)physiological arousal came after emotional arousal.
B)a physiological aroused person will label his arousal as greater when people are duped or misled.
C)emotional arousal is greater when people are duped or misled.
D)emotions start in the cortex and are sent to one's internal organs.

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Schacter-Singer's experiment, also known as the two-factor theory of emotion, demonstrated that physiological arousal alone could not account for emotional experiences. Participants were injected with epinephrine, which caused physiological arousal, and then either informed or misled about the effects of the injection. Participants who were misled (told that the injection would cause symptoms like itching and trembling) labeled their arousal as greater when they encountered a confederate who acted either angry or happy, indicating that the labeling of emotions is influenced by cognitive interpretation. This supports the idea that emotions are influenced not only by physiological arousal but also by cognitive interpretation of that arousal. Therefore, option B is correct.

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