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  1. Misattribution of arousal

    The same woman becomes more attractive when meeting on the exciting suspension bridge. Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron's study (1974) [3] to test the causation of misattribution of arousal incorporated an attractive confederate woman to wait at the end of a bridge that was either a suspension bridge (that would induce fear) or a sturdy bridge (that would not induce fear).

  2. Dutton and Aron, 1974: Bridge Study

    Dutton and Aron, 1974: Bridge Study. The original study that demonstrated misattribution of arousal was performed by two psychologists in 1974, Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron. ... For this experiment, they recruited subjects who were put into a room with a confederate who was acting as another test subject. For the experimental group, the ...

  3. Dutton and Aron and the Misattribution of Arousal Theory

    The Dutton and Aron experiment. The experiment that Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron conducted is commonly known as the Capilano Suspension Bridge study. As the name suggests, these two psychologists used two bridges to prove their point. The first bridge was small, solid, and modern. The other, on the other hand, was located on the Capilano ...

  4. What "The Love Bridge" Tells Us About How Thoughts and ...

    Dutton and Aron's explanation was that it's how we label the feelings we have that's important, not just the feelings themselves. In this experiment men on the rickety bridge were more stressed and jittery than those on the stable bridge. And the argument is that they interpreted these bodily feelings as attraction, leading them to be ...

  5. PDF Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction Under Conditions of High

    The experiment was conducted on two bridges over the Capilano River in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The "experimental" bridge was the Capilano Canyon Suspension Bridge, a flve-foot-wide, 450-foot-long, bridge constructed of wooden boards attached to wire cables that ran from one side to the other of the Capilano Canyon.

  6. Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high

    85 male passersby were contacted either on a fear-arousing suspension bridge or a non-fear-arousing bridge by an attractive female interviewer who asked them to fill out questionnaires containing Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures. ... Dutton, D. G., & Aron, A. P. (1974). Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of ...

  7. Unmasking Emotions: The Science of Misattribution in Social Psychology

    In a landmark study in 1974, Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron studied whether attraction would be more likely to develop in the context of anxiety-inducing (or arousal-inducing) situations. ... As we delve into the complexity of human emotions, studies like the Suspension Bridge experiment remind us of their intricate nature. Emotions are not just ...

  8. Two-factor theory of emotion

    Psychologists Donald G. Dutton and Arthur P. Aron wanted to use a natural setting that would induce physiological arousal. In this experiment, they had male participants walk across two different styles of bridges. One bridge was a very scary (arousing) suspension bridge, which was very narrow and suspended above a deep ravine. The second ...

  9. Misattribution of Arousal

    In a classic experiment conducted by Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron in 1974, the misattribution of arousal effect was shown to even affect feelings of attraction. In this experiment, an attractive female experimenter approached men as they crossed either a high, rickety suspension bridge or a low, safe bridge at a popular tourist site in ...

  10. PDF Capilano Suspension Bridge is a perfect love laboratory

    UBC psychology postdocs back in the 1970s, the bridge was the perfect laboratory, one that helped reveal something about the nature of sexual attraction. Don Dutton and Arthur Aron were looking to research the effect a person's physical state had on romantic attraction. The two brainstormed ideas for an experiment in a

  11. Sexual Arousal: Misattribution of Arousal

    According to Dutton and Aron's interpretation of these findings, the participants erroneously attributed their fear arousal produced by the fear-inducing bridge to their interaction with the attractive woman interviewer (Dutton & Aron, 1974). Aron and Dutton demonstrated how, when aroused, people instinctively search for context and a reason ...

  12. Dutton and Aron Suspension Bridge Experiment

    The suspension bridge experiment was conducted by Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron in 1974, in order to demonstrate a process where people apparently misjudge the cause of a high level of arousal. The results of the experiment showed that the men who were approached by an attractive woman on a less secure bridge were found to experience a higher ...

  13. Misattribution of Arousal (Definition

    Why Is Misattribution of Arousal Called "The Suspension Bridge Effect?" In 1974, psychologists Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron put this theory to the test. They created an experiment in which male participants walked across two bridges. One bridge was sturdy and low to the ground. The other was suspended high in the air, so it was less sturdy.

  14. PDF SexualArousal:Misattribution of Arousal

    fear-inducing suspension bridge or a non-fear-inducing bridge. Participants from the fear-inducing bridge made more attempts to contact the interviewer later, and their narratives featured much more explicit sexual content (Dutton & Aron, 1974). The arousal weakened when partic-ipants experienced the attractive female on the safe bridge.

  15. Attraction at first fright? What Datton & Aron really demonstrated

    Almost four decades have passed since Dutton and Aron (1974) published their classic article in JPSP in which they present the results of three studies. According to interpretations of the results done by the authors, the sufficient condition of obtaining the effect of increased sexual attraction toward the object (an attractive woman)—which must be present shortly after or while waiting to ...

  16. (PDF) Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction under Conditions

    Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction under Conditions of High Anxiety. October 1974. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 30 (4):510-7. October 1974. 30 (4):510-7.

  17. PDF Arousal and Attraction: A Response-Facilitation Alternative to

    Dutton and Aron (1974) were the first to conduct research specifically designed to test the applicability of Schachter and Singer's (1962) idea to romantic attraction.

  18. Misattribution of Arousal

    When Aron and Dutton ran the bridge experiment with a male interviewer (and male subjects), the lopsided results disappeared. The men no longer considered the interviewer as a possible cause, or if they did they suppressed it. The misattribution of arousal also went away when they ran the experiment on a safe bridge. No heightened state, no ...

  19. Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under ...

    D G Dutton, A P Aron. PMID: 4455773 DOI: 10.1037/h0037031 No abstract available. MeSH terms Adolescent Adult Anxiety Arousal Electroshock Emotions* Fear ...

  20. Attraction at first fright? What Datton & Aron really demonstrated

    Abstract. Almost four decades have passed since Dutton and Aron (1974) published their classic article in JPSP in which they present the results of three studies. According to interpretations of ...

  21. Experiences of Falling in Love

    Dutton, D.G. & Aron, A.P. (1974) `Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction under Conditions of High Anxiety', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 30: 510-517. Google Scholar. Festinger, L., Schachter, S. & Back, K. (1950) Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in House. New York: Harper.

  22. PDF Romantic Attraction and Liking for Sources of Conflict-Based Arousal

    Dutton and Aron (1974), for example, reported three experiments demonstrating increased heterosexual attraction occurring when arousal was produced by situa- tional threat (a suspension bridge or ...

  23. Misattribution of Arousal

    To test the causation of misattribution of arousal, Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron (1974) conducted the following experiment. This text taken from their paper: Male passersby were contacted either on a fear-arousing suspension bridge or a non-fear-arousing bridge by an attractive female interviewer who asked them to fill out questionnaires ...