Showing papers by "Phoebe C. Ellsworth published in 1987"

Patterns of appraisal and emotion related to taking an exam.

Abstract: Recent research has suggested strong relations between characteristic patterns of appraisal along emotionally relevant dimensions and the experience of specific emotions. However, this work has relied primarily upon ratings of remembered or imagined past events associated with the experience of relatively pure emotions. The present investigation is an attempt to examine cognitive appraisals and emotions during an emotional event in which subjects experience complex emotional blends. Subjects described both their cognitive appraisals and their emotional states just before taking a college midterm examination and, again, immediately after receiving their grades on the exam. Analysis of the ratings revealed that at both times the majority of subjects who felt emotion experienced complex blends of two or more emotions. Correlation and regression analyses indicated that even in the context of these blends, patterns of appraisal, highly similar to those discovered in our earlier research on remembered emotions (Smith & Ellsworth, 1985), characterized the experience of emotions as they were actually felt.

The social psychology of eyewitness accuracy: Misleading questions and communicator expertise.

Abstract: Est-il possible d'alterer le souvenir qu'un temoin garde d'un crime en lui posant des questions biaisees? Des sujets ont visionne un videoclip montrant l'attaque d'une banque, apres quoi des comperes de l'experimentateur (au courant ou non du crime) leur ont pose des questions (biaisees ou non)