The Role of Standards of Reference in the Experience of Anger

This thesis focussed on anger directed at friends and acquaintances who have violated certain standards of conduct. It sought to determine how the intensity of anger is determined in such cases, and did this by examining the role of two standards of reference to which the actions of the friend (or acquaintance) could have been compared: what she or he could have done in the situation (a factual standard), and what he or she should have done (a normative standard). Deviations from normative standards give rise to judgments that the person's actions were morally or socially wrong, while deviations from factual standards usually elicit surprise.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Turner, Terence James

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ortony, Andrew,

• Psychology, Social
• Psychology, Experimental
• Psychology, Personality

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8803223

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69709