“…As hypothesized, our findings indicated that the more participants perceived characters' behaviors as intentional, hostile, or blameworthy, the more irritated and angry they felt. Although we cannot make any direct comparisons, our findings are consistent with studies examining the attributionemotion theory in healthy controls, (Ellsworth & Scherer, 2003;Fincham & Bradbury, 1992;Sanford, 2005;Scherer, 2001;Smith & Kirby, 2004) as well as studies in people with social misconduct disorders, criminal offenders, abusive spouses, and schizophrenia (An et al, 2010;Bailey & Ostrov, 2008;Combs et al, 2007;Holtzworth-Munroe & Smutzler, 1996;Vitale et al, 2005). Although the scenarios used to assess negative attributions have varied across studies, the findings have reliably supported the attribution-emotion theory (Epps & Kendall, 1995;HoltzworthMunroe et al, 2000;Vitale et al, 2005); thus, the results do not seem to be scenario-dependent.…”