Studies // Cited work
The emotion process: Event appraisal and component differentiation
Scherer, K. R., & Moors, A. (2019). The emotion process: Event appraisal and component differentiation.
Level D Review doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-122216-011854
What this study supports
Supports the claim that the componential view describes a process from appraisal through action tendencies, physiology and expression to feeling and verbal categorisation. Narrative review by proponents of the view.
- Who was studied
- Not applicable: a narrative review focused on experimental studies of the emotion process.
- Design
- Review
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
TheoreticalLevel DConfidence HIGH
The component process model describes emotion as a dynamic process in which a sequence of appraisal checks drives changes in motivation, physiology and expression, with feeling and verbal labelling as later components.
- Scope
- The model's architecture as stated by its author and collaborators.
- Caveat
- Support for the proposed sequence and synchronisation of components comes largely from the model's proponents, and critics dispute that appraisal precedes and causes the other components.
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