“Chapter 19 - Computational models of appraisal to understand the person-situation relation” by Nutchanon Yongsatianchot and Stacy Marsella. In Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations, (Dustin Wood, Stephen J. Read, P.D. Harms, and Andrew Slaughter, eds.), 2021, pp. 651-674.
Appraisal theories of emotion argue that emotions arise from a process of comparing individual needs and concerns to external demands. That is, emotions cannot be explained by solely focusing on the environment or by solely focusing on the individual. Rather, they reflect an individuals subjective assessment of their relation to the environment. Appraisal theories further posit this relationship is characterized by the individual (appraised) in terms of a set of criteria, variously called appraisal variables, checks, or dimensions; for example, Is an event congruent with a persons goals or concerns?; Who or what caused it?; Was it unexpected?; and What control does the person have over its unfolding? The results of these appraisal checks are in turn mapped to emotion. In this chapter, we do not explore appraisal as a theory of emotion elicitation. Rather, we suggest appraisal theories, specifically the criteria that appraisal theories posit, provide a useful framework for characterizing how situations are perceived by a person and influence their behavior. We go on to suggest that computational models of appraisal can provide a clear specification of how these criteria are assessed. Furthermore, such models can help us explore the dynamics of the person-environment relation, specifically how changes in the environment as well as changes in the persons perceptions and behavior arise and induce those dynamics.
BibTeX entry:
@incollection{YONGSATIANCHOT2021651,
author = {Nutchanon Yongsatianchot and Stacy Marsella},
editor = {Dustin Wood and Stephen J. Read and P.D. Harms and Andrew
Slaughter},
title = {Chapter 19 - Computational models of appraisal to understand
the person-situation relation},
booktitle = {Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations},
pages = {651-674},
publisher = {Academic Press},
year = {2021},
isbn = {978-0-12-819200-9}
}
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