Principled background: appraisal theory

• the Emotional asconcern satisfaction process

  • Concernscuriosity, familiarity, well-functioning, exercising, control, attachment, …
  • Appraisalsmediate between occurrence of concern-relevant events andchanges of internal action tendencies
  • Action tendenciesstates of readiness to achieve or maintain a given kind of relationship with the environment:stimulus-driven, not goal-oriented

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