... psychologists started to look at the role of cognitive factors in the experience of emotion. The Study Schachter and Singer describe the work of Maranon (1924) who carried out experiments to see if bodily changes, stimulated by adrenalin, would produce feelings of emotion. 70% of subjects experienced physical symptoms such as a dry mouth or pounding heart, but no emotion. Others said that they "felt as if..." If questioned about a painful event before the injection they were unlikely to respond emotionally, but after the injection then became unhappy. This suggests that the psychological arousal brought on by the injection was not enough to produce emotion unless the person was provided with an appropriate cognition such as an upsetting memory. Schachter and Singer then suggested their Two-Faced theory of Emotion - emotion comes from a combination of state of arousal and a cognition that makes best sense of the situation the person is in. Three ...

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