It is not our purpose in this chapter to take issue with appraisal theory. The fact that appraisal
theory has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of the emotion process is …

The scientific study of emotion has long been dominated by theories emphasizing the
subjective experience of emotions and their accompanying expressive and physiological …

Usually, people's emotions arise from their perceptions of their circumstances-immediate,
imagined, or remembered. This idea has been implicit in many philosophical treatments of …

What does affect, or emotion, have to do with social cognition? If cognition is concerned with
how people think, and social cognition concerns how people think about themselves and …

The idea that appraisal plays a role in emo-tion can be traced back to Aristotle, Des-cartes,
Spinoza, and Hume, who considered it self-evident that the states variously called passions …

Abstract according to an increasingly influential approach to the study of emotion, known as
appraisal theory, emotions are inherently relational, or interactional/thus emotions are seen …

Appraisal theories of emotion have two fundamental assumptions:(a) that there are
regularities to be discovered between situations and components of emotional episodes …

What is appraisal theory? In simplest form, its essence is the claim that emotions are elicited
by evaluations (appraisals) of events and situations. For example, sadness felt when a …

Philosophical and psychological theory has traditionally focused on intra-individual
processes that are entailed in emotions. Recently sociologists, cultural anthropologists, and …

This paper presents a new approach to the demarcation of social emotions, based on their
dependence on social appraisals that are designed to assess events bearing on social …