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According to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory of emotion, if a person is injected with epinephrine (increasing heart rate and blood pressure) without their knowledge, and then enters a room with a very angry confederate, how will they interpret their feelings?
- They will interpret the feeling as a 'rest-and-digest' state, reflecting a parasympathetic rebound after arousal.
- They will likely feel angry because they will attribute their physiological arousal to the social context.
- They will feel fear only, since epinephrine functions as the body's dedicated 'fear' hormone.
- They will feel no emotion at all, because epinephrine alone cannot trigger the amygdala's fear response.
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