Misattribution Of Arousal Theory

The misattribution of arousal theory is a concept in which people attribute their physiological arousals to the wrong source. It is without question that we have tendency to look for answers to our emotional behaviors. This further confirms that we reevaluate ourselves before attributing our behaviors to a stimulus. It can be very complicated to outline the reasons our bodies act in several situations without having a mental checkpoint for all the possible stimuli. The misattribution arousal theory has been very important in explaining feeling people have in dating. It may also provide an explanation for time in romances where couples start very much into each other and gradually fizzle out. They’re often mistaken factors that make them feel …show more content…
Similarly, in misattributed arousal, people will attribute their arousal feeling partially to themselves and emotional cues. For self-perception theory, we get information about our attitudes partially by analyzing our reactions in the instances that behavior occurs. Many other external factors can be missed in the midst of making a decision which can lead to misattribution arousal. For example, in the bridge experiment, men crossing the suspension bridge probably come to their conclusion reflecting back on how they reacted to previous encounters with women in other anxious situations. They were self-reflecting about their own behaviors before asking the woman for a date. They were convinced that their arousal feeling was indeed an attraction for the woman. This is often true when internal factors are weak or confusing so people have to seek for other factors to attribute to their attitudes and feelings. The misattribution arousal model explain the reasons we tend to associate our feeling to the wrong source and may lead to attraction. And self-perception also relates to the misattribution arousal model in guiding people to look at themselves to understand their behavior and