 In the other condition, the woman had approached the men after they had crossed the bridge.They had enough time to rest and get their heartbeat and breathing back to normal.More males contacted the female experimenter when they had just walked down the suspension bridge, which was thought to be due to their misattribution of their arousal (they believed that they were feeling sexual arousal at the sight of the female instead of feeling the leftover physiological arousal from the fear of walking across the suspension bridge).