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Arousal

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You interpret your bodily signals through social context.
Physiological arousal is ambiguous, and you use your environment to identify what the emotion means.…
Your brain prioritizes memories that have high emotional intensity.
The 'arousal-biased competition' theory explains that arousal enhances memory for high-priority stimuli while impairin…
You perform better when you are slightly stressed.
The Yerkes-Dodson law describes an inverted-U relationship between stimulus strength and learning performance, origina…
You often misinterpret your own physical anxiety as attraction.
Heightened physical arousal from an external source is frequently mislabeled as intense romantic or social interest.…