This chapter addresses 4 interrelated questions:(1) What are the appraisals (motive-relevant
evaluations) that cause particular emotions?(2) Why do these particular appraisals cause …

From antiquity, most philosophers and psychologists have implicitly assumed that the nature
of an individual's emotional experience is determined by his/her subjective interpretation of …

Discusses how emotional phenomena enter into almost every aspect of social life, and in
themselves, how emotions are distinctly social processes. The chapter begins with a …

Most topics studied by social psychologists involve emotion in some way. Consider how
cognitive dissonance is motivated by anxiety about self-esteem, or how conformity is …

Appraisal theorists following a componential approach, as proposed by Ellsworth and Smith
(1985), Frijda (1986), Roseman (1984), or Scherer (1984), share the assumption that a) …

Many appraisal theories claim that appraisal causes emotion. Critics have rejected this claim
because they believe (a) it is incompatible with the claim that appraisal is a part of …

The study of emotion now claims a central position in social psychology (eg, Tiedens &
Leach, 2004; Zajonc, 1998). As social-psychological studies have advanced an …

In this paper, I question the assumption that emotions are first and foremost individual
reactions, and suggest instead that they are often best viewed as social phenomena. I show …

Abstract discuss the ways in which the sociocultural environment can be expected to
influence the emotional processes, the roles and functions of these processes in social …