Question

Max travels by plane on a business trip even though he is terrified of plane rides. As he anxiously sits through take-off, he becomes aware of his attraction to the woman sitting next to him and begins to talk with her. What led to Max becoming more attracted to this woman than he would normally have been?

Answer 1

The correct answer is excitation transfer

Explanation:  According to Zillmann, physiological activation does not come to an abrupt end when the conditions that originated it are no longer present. In fact, it takes much longer to disappear due to the slow hormonal processes behind them.

That is, if a person was activated in a certain context, and then is in another context and this one also causes an emotion, that second activation is added to that which was generated in the first context. This situation is what is known as residual arousal, that is, the degree of activation that we take from one context to another.