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The relation between appraisal variables and emotions: a research using indirect experimental methods

We examine which aspects of a situation and/or person are crucial in the elicitation of emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness. Since we assume that emotion-antecedent information processing often occurs automatically, we use experimental tasks suitable for examining automatic processes, such as variants of the sequential priming tas and the Simon Task.

Date:1 Oct 2008 →  30 Sep 2012
Keywords:appraisal theory, automaticity, emotions, affective priming
Disciplines:Social psychology, Human experimental psychology, Applied psychology, Animal experimental and comparative psychology