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Drawing inferences from emotion expressions: The role of situative informativeness and context
Shlomo Hareli1, Shimon Elkabetz1, Ursula Hess2
1Laboratory for the Study of Social Perception of Emotions and The Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Emotions, Department of Business Administration, University of Haifa.
Abstract:
How people react emotionally to an event can tell us much about the event itself. However, emotions vary in their situative informativeness, that is, in how much information about the situation they provide. We predicted that when emotions are shown that are low in situative informativeness participants rely more on context information, then when the emotions shown are high in situative informativeness. This hypothesis was tested in 2 studies in which participants were asked to evaluate the quality of a player's performance based on the emotional reactions of spectators to an unknown ball game. Spectators reacted either with awe (high in situative informativeness), or with happiness or neutrality (low in situative informativeness). Participant also received context information. The findings supported the predictions and illustrate how emotions and context interact to inform us about events. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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