American social psychologist known for research on emotion, affiliation and obesity.
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BirthplaceFlushing, Queens, New York, U.S. 1 Death PlaceEast Hampton, New York, U.S. 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionWith Jerome Singer, proposed the two-factor theory of emotion in 1962, showing in a landmark epinephrine experiment that people label unexplained physiological arousal using emotional cues from their immediate surroundings. 2 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Stanley Schachter
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1. Wikipedia: Stanley Schachter
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Flushing, Queens, New York, U.S.
Later life and death
Schachter died on June 7, 1997, at his home in East Hampton, New York.
Introduction
was an American social psychologist best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962
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The two-factor theory of emotion posits when an emotion is felt, a physiological arousal occurs and the person uses the immediate environment to search for emotional cues to label the physiological arousal.
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