stackyFACTSYour brain is remarkably stupid when it comes to figuring out why your heart is racing.
Your brain is remarkably stupid when it comes to figuring out why your heart is racing. Stanley Schachter injected people with adrenaline and then stuck them in a room with an actor who acted either furious or wildly euphoric. The participants subconsciously adopted the emotion of the actor, proving that our body just gives us a generic physical buzz, and our brain hastily looks around the room to decide whether we should be angry, scared, or turned on.
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