Making Sense of Emotion in Stories and Social Life
Making Sense of Emotion in Stories and Social Life
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理解故事和社交生活中的情感
DOI:
10.1080/02699939308409191
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
A. Manstead
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文献类型:
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作者:
B. Parkinson;A. Manstead
Abstract This paper is concerned with some limitations of the vignette methodology used in contemporary appraisal research and their implications for appraisal theory. We focus on two recent studies in which emotional manipulations were achieved using textual materials, and criticise the investigators' apparent implicit assumption that participation in everyday social reality is somehow comparable to reading a story. We take issue with three related aspects of this cognitive analogy between life and its narrative representation, by arguing that emotional reactions in real life are not necessarily mediated by symbolic processes, that people are involved participants of real life rather than neutral observers, and that in real life people's evaluations and emotions are typically part of an ongoing dialogue rather than the expression of a soliloquy. Results from these studies of emotional vignettes therefore tend to overestimate the importance of constructive, abstract, and individualistic processes in the e...
DOI:
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发表时间:
1983
期刊:
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
影响因子:
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作者:
Epstein,S
通讯作者:
Epstein,S