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(2013) Human Studies 36 (1).
In a classic experiment (Schacter and Singer 1962), investigators injected subjects with adrenaline to excite them, then randomly assigned half to work with a “happy” confederate and half with one who feigned anger. Those in the first grouping reported feeling gleeful, elated, or content; those in the second group characterized themselves as being irritated, annoyed, or hostile. The conclusion: Emotions are not just organic responses to stimuli. They are states of sensory arousal given meaning and significance by the social/cultural contexts into which they are woven: the expectations of friends, supervisors, and role-models; and by paintings, films, poetry, music, dance, reliquary, novels, blogs, statistical reports, headlines, memoirs, and video snippets.
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DOI: 10.1007/s10746-012-9254-9
Full citation:
Aho, J. (2013). Review of M. Laffan and M. Weiss (eds.), Facing fear. Human Studies 36 (1), pp. 153-157.
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