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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Appraisal Theory"”.
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Understanding the Role of Emotions in Mediated Intergroup Threat: A Cultivation and Appraisal Theory Approach
… bias. Two studies were guided by social identity theory, appraisal-based theories of emotion, and cultivation theory. Study 1 surveyed 254 adults, recruited through student referrals. Drawing insight from previous content analytic research and cultivation theory, results indicated that the media …
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Seeking Safety: The Cognitive Foundations of Civilian Behavior during Violence
… I develop and test a political psychology theory, situational appraisal theory, that explains individual behavior by focusing on variation in appraisals of how controllable and predictable violent environments are. I apply situational appraisal theory to explain behavior in two distinct …
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Affect in Secondary Students' Reading as Revealed by their Emotional Responses in Retrospective Miscue Analysis
… revalued voices. Martin and White's (2005) appraisal theory was used to analyze student's emotional responses. Appraisal theory is based on Halliday's systemic functional linguistic view of language.Research findings indicated that readers became adept at articulating their own strategies, …
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The Effect of Changing Appraisals of Current Life Success on Memories of Love Towards Parents
… do we bias our memories of childhood? Cognitive appraisal theory would predict that emotions are elicited based on the current appraisal of an event or person. There is some research that these current appraisals can also distort memories of emotions surrounding an event. No past research has …
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Magda Arnold and the Human Person: A Mid-Century Case Study on the Relationship Between Psychology and Religion
… Arnold (1903-2002)—best known for her pioneering appraisal theory of emotion—spanned the 20th century, and she witnessed the rise and fall of many of the major “schools” of psychology. Arnold had an unusual perspective on these theories of psychology, due in large part to an event that occurred in …
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The Effect of Emotions on the Acceptance of Reclaimed Wastewater for Irrigation: A Key to Manage the Hydric Balance in an Arid Region of Spain?
… stakeholder groups. Applying Q methodology and Appraisal Theory, the research reveals how both positive and negative valence emotions influence farmers’ decision-making and stakeholder interactions, provoking both acceptance and rejection of reclaimed wastewater. The study challenges the …
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“Oh, fair enough!” appraisal analysis of eurovision song contest commentary /
… in terms of gender, aspects of evaluation and Appraisal analysis. The research used the Appraisal framework developed by Martin & White (2005). The aims of this study are to find out which gender gets more praise or criticism, as well as which criteria are the focus of the commentator’s …
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A study of the theory of appraisal for selection
Appraisal for selection is a vital archival function that demarcates knowledge of our past and influences our ability to form our future. Present archival theory, however, includes a profusion of conflicting and ambiguous criteria and terminology that correspond to the imprecise conceptualization …
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An Examination of the Underlying Mechanisms of Customer Incivility: A Cognitive Approach
… processes underlying CI. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory, this research hypothesized that customer anger mediates the relationships between negative service experiences and CI and that confirmation bias, overconfidence, and social influence moderate the relationships. Using data from …
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An exploration of strategies to convey evaluation in the "NoteBook" texts
… is on the one hand based on some aspects of the Appraisal Theory, especially on White's (2004, 2005/6) notions of naturalisation and unarguability, and on the other on evaluation conveyed through attributed material. It is argued that such resources indirectly position readers in a stance similar …
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A comparative appraisal analysis of political news in The Namibia and New Era newspapers from 2015 to 2018
The thesis is a comparative Appraisal analysis of political news from two Namibian English newspapers (The Namibian and New Era), particularly focusing examining the propagation of journalistic attitudinal biases in political ‘hard news’ stories and journalistic ‘objectivity’. The research compares …
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Violence, Depression, Parental Stress, and Child Neglect among High Risk Postpartum Women
… neglect and psychological aggression. Lazarus' Appraisal Theory and Scaer's Traumatic Spectrum framework provided a conceptual basis to examine the interrelationships between intimate partner violence (IPV), depression, previous traumatic history, and child neglect. A descriptive correlation …
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Communicating Vision : a Linguistic Analysis of Leadership Speeches
… Functional Linguistics (SFL), including Genre Theory, and an extension of SFL, Appraisal Theory, on four visionary speeches in the field of political discourse—Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address, Churchill‘s ―We Shall Fight on the Beaches,‖ Kennedy‘s inaugural, and Martin Luther King Jr.‘s ―I Have a …
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Does a gift in a captive service make me feel better? Examining gift giving in uncertain conditions that influence emotions and firm performance.
<p>According to cognitive appraisal theory of emotion (CAT), firms have the opportunity to influence negative primary appraisals in captive services during the secondary appraisal process through gift giving. Negative consumer emotions can be affected by uncertainties from captive services due to …
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The role of aging and emotion in processing health-related framed messages
… as a function of age. Based upon the appraisal theory of emotion, Experiment 2 examined the effects of evaluations of framed messages on affective valence. Experiment 3 investigated age differences in cognitive-linguistic processing and the relationship to affective processing during …
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Emotion In Online Distance Language Learning: Learners’ Appraisal Of Regret And Pride In Synchronous Audiographic Conferencing
… phenomenological experiences, cognitive appraisal and some form of coping. Appraisal theory claims that emotions are elicited by evaluations of events and situations in relation to a person’s goals, needs or concerns (Roseman & Smith, 2001). Roseman’s appraisal model proposes seven …
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'Friends', 'fans', and foes: Identity performance through responses to Facebook brand marketing
… the third and central layer of analysis employs Appraisal theory (Martin & White, 2005) to investigate performances of identity through evaluation of emotions, aesthetics, and ethics. While there is an increasingly large amount of quantitative research considering the use and effectiveness of …
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The quest for identity of African American women from 1939 to 2000 in postmodern American Drama
… made use of Martin and White's (2005) account of Appraisal Theory. By utilizing one of the Systemic Functional Linguistics systems; (interpersonal metafunctions), as a framework and focus completely on all the appraisal categories gave the readers a new way of understanding those literary texts. …
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Upward Cross-Class Interactions at Work: An Investigation of Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes
… interactions with others at work, despite theory and sparse evidence from other fields that cross-class interactions are perceived as a threat and influence attitudes and behaviors.</p> <p>Through a sociocultural lens of social class, I integrate stereotype threat theory and the cognitive …
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Third party hurt: consequences of receiving hurtful messages through a third party
Previous work on hurtful messages focused on receiving hurtful messages in dyadic relationships. However, hurt feelings are also elicited when people receive hurtful messages from individuals other than the person who originally stated the message. The current study examined peoples’ experience of …
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