On the Causal Role of Appraisal in Emotion

By Agnes Moors. 2013

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Flavors of Appraisal Theories of Emotion (2014, background): “Additional criteria are that emotional episodes (a) contain an appraisal that the stimulus is relevant for a central goal or concern (cf. Moors, 2007, 2013; Oatley & Johnson-Laird, 1987), (b) contain an action tendency with control precedence (i.e., one that takes priority over other goals, Frijda,…”
Emotions Emerge from More Basic Psychological Ingredients: A Modern Psychological Constructionist Model (2013, background): “Like causal appraisal approaches (and unlike psychological constructionism), constitutive appraisal models (Moors, 2013; Scherer, 2009a, 2009b) still assume that emotion categories refer to distinct states with specific functional importance.”
Appraisal Theories of Emotion: State of the Art and Future Development (2013, background): “This is what is meant when appraisal theorists argue that appraisal elicits or causes emotions (Moors, 2013).”
Appraisal Theory: Old and New Questions (2013, background): “For the theorists that Moors (2013) calls “subemotional parts theorists” a person can have a multitude of emotional experiences that do not correspond to the categories proposed by any basic emotion theorists.”
Comment: The Appraising Brain: Towards a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Appraisal Processes in Emotion (2013, unknown): “Complementing Moors (2013), who describes appraisal-based Comment: The Appraising Brain: Towards a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Appraisal Processes in Emotion emotion elicitation at the functional and the algorithmic level, we attempt a description at the implementational level, focusing on the neural…”
Current Emotion Research in Social Psychology: Thinking About Emotions and Other People (2015, background): “Appraisal researchers agree that a range of different perceptual and cognitive operations may be involved (e.g., Moors, 2013).”