They conducted an experiment where they had study participants relate to a central character. The central character performed badly in a course which carried importance for one scenario. The character appraised his situation after. He blamed the useless teaching aids by other-accountability. He blamed himself, arguing that he made a lot of mistakes by self-accountability. He worried that there was a large chance he would finish with a poor academic record through low emotion-focused coping potential. He believed that it would be impossible to succeed in his chosen academic path through low future expectancy. They determined that the predicted effects reported by participants on emotional states were the same as the appraisal manipulations. For example, guilt was more common in self accountability than other accountability, while anger was more common in other accountability than self-accountability. These results conclude that emotions can be altered by manipulation of the appraisals, suggesting that appraisals are in fact an important factor for emotional
They conducted an experiment where they had study participants relate to a central character. The central character performed badly in a course which carried importance for one scenario. The character appraised his situation after. He blamed the useless teaching aids by other-accountability. He blamed himself, arguing that he made a lot of mistakes by self-accountability. He worried that there was a large chance he would finish with a poor academic record through low emotion-focused coping potential. He believed that it would be impossible to succeed in his chosen academic path through low future expectancy. They determined that the predicted effects reported by participants on emotional states were the same as the appraisal manipulations. For example, guilt was more common in self accountability than other accountability, while anger was more common in other accountability than self-accountability. These results conclude that emotions can be altered by manipulation of the appraisals, suggesting that appraisals are in fact an important factor for emotional