Ideas and Realities of Emotion

Must interesting things be pleasant? A test of competing appraisal structures.

“…People then rated how they felt at the time and what their appraisals were. The issue of how accurately people can remember past emotions and past appraisals is not straightforward, but it is clear that retrospective reports of emotions and appraisals may be distorted or reconstructed (Levine, Prohaska, Burgess, Rice, & Laulhere, 2001;Parkinson, 1995). An emotion like interest, which is relatively transient and low in intensity, may not be encoded as deeply as emotions that are more intense.…”

Mapping Shame and Its Functions in Relationships

“…Most important for this commentary, empirical evidence suggests that opposing attributional appraisals do not necessarily elicit or maintain differing intensities of guilt versus shame (cf. Ferguson et al, 1999Parkinson, 1995). Instead, the distinguishing feature between guilt versus shame is their intentional concern (cf.…”

Emotions in business-to-business service relationships

“…Others, such as Fineman [1993] see emotion from a social constructionist viewpoint with the notion of emotional contagion [Hatfield et al, 1994] providing evidence that emotions are social in nature. Emotional contagion, the interpersonal view of emotion [Parkinson, 1995] and the work of Menon and Dube [2000] provide additional insights in their discussion on how some emotions trigger an instinctive 'mimetic' response while others induce a complementary response. Notions of reciprocity are also pertinent here.…”