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The process of emotion inference.

Matthias Siemer1, Rainer Reisenzein

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA. msiemer@psy.miami.edu

Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
|March 14, 2007
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Inferring emotions from situations involves rapid, automatic appraisal processes. This study shows that judging emotions happens before cognitive appraisals, suggesting proceduralized inference for understanding feelings.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Understanding how people infer emotions from situational contexts is crucial in psychology.
  • Previous research suggested emotion inferences are mediated by cognitive appraisals of events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the temporal dynamics of emotion inference and cognitive appraisal.
  • To test the hypothesis that emotion judgments are based on automatized appraisal inferences.

Main Methods:

  • Response time methodology was employed across three experiments.
  • A judgment facilitation paradigm was used in Experiments 2 and 3.

Main Results:

  • Emotion judgments were consistently faster than appraisal judgments, contradicting initial hypotheses.

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  • Prior emotion judgments facilitated subsequent appraisal judgments, supporting proceduralization.

    • Conclusions:

    • Emotion inference from eliciting situations appears to rely on automatized, proceduralized appraisal processes.
    • These findings suggest a rapid, implicit pathway for emotion understanding in response to events.