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What emotional reactions can tell us about the nature of others: An appraisal perspective on person perception
Shlomo Hareli,Ursula Hess +1 more
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This article found that people can reconstruct or "reverse engineer" the appraisals underlying an emotional reaction and use this appraisal information to draw person perception inferences about their character, such as being more aggressive, and self-confident, but also less warm and gentle than a person who reacted with sadness.Abstract:
The present research aimed to assess how people use knowledge about the emotional reactions of others to make inferences about their character. Specifically, we postulate that people can reconstruct or “reverse engineer” the appraisals underlying an emotional reaction and use this appraisal information to draw person perception inferences. As predicted, a person who reacted with anger to blame was perceived as more aggressive, and self-confident, but also as less warm and gentle than a person who reacted with sadness (Study 1). A person who reacted with a smile (Study 1) or remained neutral (Study 2) was perceived as self-confident but also as unemotional. These perceptions were mediated by perceived appraisals.read more
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Reading people’s minds from emotion expressions in interdependent decision making.
TL;DR: A model based on appraisal theories of emotion is suggested that posits an inferential mechanism whereby people retrieve, from emotion expressions, information about others' appraisals, which then lead to inferences about other people's mental states.
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The persuasive power of emotions: Effects of emotional expressions on attitude formation and change
TL;DR: Effects occurred regardless of whether emotional expressions were manipulated through written words, pictures of facial expressions, film clips containing both facial and vocal emotional expressions, or emoticons, and indicate that emotional expressions are a powerful source of social influence.
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An appraisal theory of empathy and other vicarious emotional experiences.
TL;DR: An appraisal theory of vicarious emotional experiences, including empathy, based on appraisal theories of emotion is proposed and it is discussed how this framework can predict empathic emotion matching and also the experience of emotions for others that do not match what they feel.
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Emotion is for influence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that a primary function of emotion at this interpersonal level of analysis is to engender social influence and that emotional expressions produce interpersonal effects by triggering affective reactions and/or inferential processes in targets.
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Emotion perception, but not affect perception, is impaired with semantic memory loss.
TL;DR: Findings from 3 patients with semantic dementia that cannot be explained by this "basic emotion" view support the hypothesis that discrete emotion concept knowledge helps transform perceptions of affect into perceptions of discrete emotions such as anger, disgust, fear, and sadness.
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