User talk:Jdinuoscio

Our class is working on updating this page so that it will have more (and more accurate) information regarding this topic. Here is our current plan:

1.There is no reference at all to the first study done about misattribution of arousal on this Wikipedia page. We will add in information about Schachter and Singer’s (1962) study and use other studies to show how this original one has influenced more research. Schachter and Singer found that physiological arousal, when not known why one is aroused, would be misattributed to something else, such as a cognition, if they were not aware of what initiated the arousal.

2. The Wikipedia page on misattribution of arousal currently only discusses one model of this phenomenon, therefore, it is important that we include the other models that we found during our research. We will discuss how Allen et al. (1989) tested two other models related to misattribution of arousal and found that the response-facilitation model actually explains the phenomenon better. The response facilitation model demonstrates that regardless of if the true cause of arousal is salient or not, people who are in higher states of arousal will be more attracted to targets than those who were not in high arousal states.

3. The introduction to the article is currently only one sentence long and provides a very broad overview of the topic. We believe the introduction portion of the article on misattribution of arousal could benefit from being expanded and reworded to place a heavier stress on physiological arousal being misattributed to cognitive functions. We will also stress the importance of the physiological arousal being from an ambiguous stimuli. The final addition we would like to add to the introduction is an example of how misattribution can function in real situations. The study by White et al. (1981) analyzed how misattribution of arousal can affect the process of romantic attraction. Participants in the study were put in varying conditions of arousal and these conditions ended up influencing the perceived attractiveness of a potential partner. In order to provide evidence for this expanded introduction we will draw from the original study of misattribution of arousal, Schachter and Singer (1962) and the previously mentioned study by White et al. (1981).