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People infer others' intentions from emotional expressions by considering situational context and underlying appraisals. This research explains how emotion displays influence social decision-making and mind-reading abilities.

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Area of Science:

Social Psychology
Cognitive Science
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Understanding how individuals infer mental states from emotional displays is crucial for social interaction.
Interdependent decision-making relies on accurately predicting others' intentions based on their expressed emotions.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether people use appraisal principles when interpreting emotion displays in social contexts.
To determine if beliefs about others' appraisals mediate the link between emotion expressions and inferred intentions.

Main Methods:

Five experiments were conducted, employing contextual manipulation, textual appraisal expressions, multiple mediation analyses, and causal-chain designs.
Participants' responses to emotion displays were analyzed under varying competitive and cooperative conditions.
The impact of facial emotion displays was compared to textual expressions of appraisals.

Main Results:

Emotion displays yield context-dependent interpretations; a smile can elicit negative responses in competitive contexts.
Appraisals, such as goal conduciveness and blame attribution, are the core information derived from emotion displays.
Beliefs about others' appraisals significantly mediate the influence of emotion expressions on expectations of intentions.

Conclusions:

A model is proposed where emotion expressions trigger inferences about others' appraisals, leading to mental state attributions.
This mechanism is vital for understanding social decision-making and has implications for human-agent interaction design.
The findings highlight the importance of appraisal theory in explaining how emotional cues are processed in social cognition.