Dutton and Aron

Question 1

Thematic Apperception Test, or TAT

Answer 1

A projective test that involves describing ambiguous scenes to learn more about a person’s emotions, motivations, and personality

Question 2

Sexual-Aggression link

Answer 2

• Barclay and Haber (1965): Berating students for having done poorly on tests.
• Fraternity and sorority members angered by a female experimenter
• Clarck 1952: viewing slides of nudes yielded increased aggression
  in TAT responses

Question 3

Arons arguments

Answer 3

A more general sexual attraction and emotional arousal connection exists. Residual feelings from intense role-playing (40 males) resulted in more desire to kiss the confederate and included more sexual imagery written in respone to TAT.

Question 4

Schachter and Singer theory

Answer 4

He argued that environmental cues are used, in certain circumstances, to provide emotional labels for unexplained or ambiguous states of arousal.

Question 5

Aron’s hypothesis (1970)

Answer 5

Strong emotions are relabeled as sexual attraction whenever an acceptable object is present and emotion-producing circumstances do not require the full
attention of the individual.

Question 6

Notion to be proven

Answer 6

An attractive female is seen as more attractive in a situation where they experience strong emotion.