This paper is concerned with some limitations of the vignette methodology used in
contemporary appraisal research and their implications for appraisal theory. We focus on …

After what has been termed the affective or emotional turn in sociology and many other
academic fields, there is still a dearth of methodologies for systematic empirical emotion …

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 aim of appraisal theory in the psychology of emotion is to identify the features of the
emotion-eliciting situation that lead to the production of one emotion rather than another 2. A …

Discursive psychology is defined and illustrated in terms of how people describe and invoke
emotions in everyday talk and text. Materials from counselling sessions and newspaper texts …

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 …

This article aims to clarify the nature of the relation between cognitive appraisal and
emotion. I distinguish a range of alternative possible hypotheses according to whether this …

Emotions have increasingly become the object of systematic sociological inquiry. Due to
their special nature, a number of methodological problems accrue to the task of making …

This paper is in three sections—theory, method and data. We consider that emotions are
socially constructed, and begin with an interpretation of social constructionism as it applies …

According to both orthodox Freudian theory and contemporary neuropsychological
approaches to emotion, our ability to know and report on the emotions that we feel is limited …