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

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 …

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 …

120 Emotion Review Vol. 5 No. 2 and a feeling component with subjective experience or
feelings. The emotion process is continuous and recursive. Changes in one component feed …

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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the levels of processing in emotion-antecedent
appraisal. The evaluation or appraisal of an event with respect to its relevance to the …

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

Appraisal theories of emotion hold that it is the way a person interprets a situation--rather
than the situation itself--that gives rise to one emotion rather than another emotion (or no …

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 …

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 …