Terri is an experienced matchmaker. She tells her clients who are looking for romantic connections that good first dates should
be active experiences that make your heart race, resulting in excitement or fear. When her clients follow her advice, they are more likely to feel a romantic connection with a new partner on the first date. On what psychological concept is Terri relying when giving this advice
Terri is relying on the psychological concept known as misattribution of arousal.
Misattribution of arousal in psychology is the concept used to describe the situation whereby individuals can be aroused by sources other than what was supposed to cause the arousal, it is when individuals wrongly attribute the stimulus that is responsible for their physiological arousal.
Terri's client may not have been aroused by the first date but by the expectation that a first date should result in physiological arousal.
misattribution of arousal is the psychological concept Terri relied when giving the advice.
In psychology, Misattribution of arousal is the concept used to describe the condition or process whereby a person is mistaking what causes his or her psychological arousal. That is, a person may be psychologically aroused by something which is completely different from the actual source or cause of his or her arousal.
