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Catharine Evers1, Agneta H Fischer, Patricia M Rodriguez Mosquera
1Social Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. catharine.evers@psp.ucl.ac.be
Abstract:
The central objective of this study was to investigate the role of social appraisal in sex differences in anger expression. Anger expression was inferred from the amount of hot sauce given to the person who induced anger. Participants were randomly assigned to a social condition, in which they expected to meet this person, or to a nonsocial condition, in which they had no such expectation. Men and women differed in their anger expressions, despite the fact that they did not differ in anger experience. Women expressed anger to a lesser extent than men, but only in the social condition. Social appraisal partly mediated the relation between sex and anger expression. The role of social appraisal in emotion and appraisal theory is discussed.
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