When1: 1956
When2: 1959
Who: Stanley Schachter [Schachter, Stanley]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ When Prophecy Fails [1956: with L. Festinger and H. Riecken]; Psychology of Affiliation [1959]
Detail: He lived 1922 to 1997. People with high or low adrenaline have same moods and so chemical levels do not cause emotions, with Jerome Singer. Moods depend on social-situation cognition. Arousal accompanies fear, sex, anger, and elation.
Differing expected and actual perception or cognition, or interrupting perception or cognition, produces undifferentiated autonomic nervous system arousal, especially in viscera. Arousal directs more attention to environment. General visceral arousal causes the feeling of emotion.
Thought, past-experience, and environmental-signal differences cause emotion differences, not visceral-arousal differences.
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