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How Appraisal Changes the Physiological Aspect of Emotion

How Appraisal Changes the Physiological Aspect of Emotion . In a famous experiment, Lazarus et al. (1965) presented a stressful movie about a very painful eventsuch as a circumscission or an accident with finger cut off. He measured physiological reactions to it. Contributor.

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How Appraisal Changes the Physiological Aspect of Emotion

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  1. How Appraisal Changes the Physiological Aspect of Emotion In a famous experiment, Lazarus et al. (1965) presented a stressful movie about a very painful eventsuch as a circumscission or an accident with finger cut off. He measured physiological reactions to it. Contributor © POSbase 2004

  2. How Appraisal Changes the Physiological Aspect of Emotion • There were three groups that differed in appraisal: • Negation: „It is a movie played by actors“ • Intellectualization: Distanced viewpoint (e.g., expert) • Control group without instruction • Dependent variables was physiological activation, measured by the galvanic skin response. © POSbase 2004

  3. How Appraisal Changes the Physiological Aspect of Emotion Galvanic skin response was strongest for control participants, followed by participants of the negation group. The lowest reactions were shown participants who had to intellectualize their stressful experience by taking an expert stance. © POSbase 2004

  4. How Appraisal Changes the Physiological Aspect of Emotion The fact that appraisal results in changes of physiological activation contradicts the assumptions of William James (1884) that physiological activation precedes any emotional appraisal. Moreover, the finding contradicts the two-factor theory of emotion by Schachter and Singer (1962) that assumes independent contributions of physiological activation and cognitive appraisal. © POSbase 2004

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