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 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.
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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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