Transcript Emotional Lability

Agenda for February 8
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Administrative Items/Announcements
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Attendance
2nd Presentation This Thursday
1st Exam next week
Paper Assignment Distributed on Tuesday, 2/15
Feedback Exercise (quiz)
Continuation of 1st Presentation
Are Cognition and Emotion Separate Systems?
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Today’s topic: Emotional Lability
Reason, Passion, & Social Cognition
Week 4, Part 1
Feedback Exercise
Part I. Schachter & Singer (1962) posit two
necessary conditions for the experience of
emotion. What are they?
Part II. Are emotions contagious? Why or
why not? (Draw on today’s readings to
inform your response.)
Reason, Passion, & Social Cognition
Week 4, Part 1
Continuation of 1st
Presentation
Reason, Passion, & Social Cognition
Week 4, Part 1
Emotional Lability
Schacter & Singer (1962)
 Hypotheses:
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Euphoria Pattern:
Epi Mis > Epi Ign > Epi Inf = Placebo
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Anger Pattern:
Epi Ign > Epi Inf = Placebo
Reason, Passion, & Social Cognition
Week 4, Part 1
Emotional Lability, cont.
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Design: 3 x 2
3 Drug (Epinephrine informed, Epi.
Ignorant, Placebo) X
2 Confederate Emotion (Anger, Euphoria)
Plus offset Epi. Misinformed within Euphoria
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Primary DV’s
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Emotional state (behavior and self report)
Reason, Passion, & Social Cognition
Week 4, Part 1
Emotional Lability, cont.
Schacter & Singer (1962)
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Mood: Ss in Epi. Ign. and Epi. Mis. were
more susceptible to stooge’s euphoria
Behavior: Ss in in Epi. Mis. were more likely
to behave euphorically than ss in Epi. Mis. Ss
in Epi. Ign. more likely to act angrily than ss in
Epi. Inf. Or in placebo.
Discussion:
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Any problems with the study?
Reason, Passion, & Social Cognition
Week 4, Part 1
Problems with the
Schachter & Singer Study
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Experimental confound in the anger
manipulation (questionnaire)
Comparison of self-reported euphoria
(Table 2) not significantly different
between placebo and Epi. Mis or Epi. Ign.
Only behavioral data for anger. Ss
unwilling to act angry if it jeopardized
extra-credit points?
Reason, Passion, & Social Cognition
Week 4, Part 1
Problems with the
Schachter & Singer Study
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The shot caused placebo subjects to “get
the shivers,” potentially obscuring
epinephrine effects.
S & S cannot, therefore, test their idea
that “subjects will only reaction
emotionally to the extent that they
experience physiological arousal.
Reason, Passion, & Social Cognition
Week 4, Part 1