Talk:Two-factor theory of emotion

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I have attempted to obtain a copy of the referenced article: "Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state" by S. Schachter and J. E. Singer; published in Psychological Review, 69:379--399 (1962) from the publisher American Psychological Association. Unfortunately, they were not able to provide this article being older than 25 years. Does anyone here know how to obtain a physical copy of this article to be placed in the permanent collection of a nonprofit research library? Cityside Seraph 16:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have found the paper "Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state" by S. Schachter and J. E. Singer freely available here http://faculty.uncfsu.edu/tvancantfort/Syllabi/Gresearch/Readings/A_Schachter1.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pfex (talk • contribs) 12:09, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How does one initiate contact on this site?

I have a copy of the article, and I can get permission from one of the authors for fair use. But how do I contact those who were looking?

click on the user´s name. In this case, that´s a red link, which means that he does not have a user page, but is not a problem, as he is at least registered and have a talk page. When you click in his username link, you´re going to a "editing" page, but at the top there are these tabs, one of these is a "discussion" tab, just like in this discussion here. You can add a message there, and he will be adviced the next time he logs in wikipedia. --Extremophile 19:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many many thanks for taking the time to post this in such detail. I greatly appreciate it.

Critiques of & Followup to High Bridge Experiment

I first heard of this experiment from the personal website of a psych grad student. Unfortunately she doesn't provide any references, but her critique of the initial experiment (lack of randomization) seems pretty obvious:

This particular version is flawed because the men weren't randomly assigned to cross each bridge. Maybe the men who were more daring in crossing the top bridge are also more willing to risk rejection by calling the experimenter? But there are many other versions of this experiment that fix this problem. It's been replicated over and over again so it's a pretty well established theory.

I think it's worth at least mentioning that critique (even without a reference, it's basic experimental design), and even better, to provide a reference to the follow-up studies that replicate the results using a better experiment.--Ajasen (talk) 17:59, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just here to fix incoherent statements, but my impressions of social psychology demand I mention: It has been clearly shown that changing physical arousal can change cognition. Set off a firecracker while someone views an advertisement, for instance, and that person won't view the ad in the same way. All the "two factor" means, is - if you tell the person there may or may not be a firecracker... well, then there is very little influence. You tell me there may or may not be a beautiful woman on the other side of a narrow pedestrian bridge... well now I've got it straight. If i encounter her without warning, circumstances may influence my impressionFoxpoet (talk) 07:32, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Psych Wiki

http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/The_Schachter-Singer_Theory_of_Emotion FOR A GREAT SOURCE... The site claims one should not use it to create other wikis however this is the most complete wikipage I have ever seen, this site is by far more professional than wikipedia if this is a sample for psych-wiki.--Nonymous-raz (talk) 07:10, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]