Appraisal theory of emotions

• Significance ofthe emotional experience (ctd.)

  • emotions are elicited when the system recognizes stimuli asblocking or permitting the completion of action tendencies, or asrelated to actual pain/satisfaction
  • conceptualization of emotions may be based ondifferent categorization of inputs/stimuli and therefore beat odds with the actual cause

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