Book chapter
On the Construction of the Anger Experience: Aversive Events and Negative Priming in the Formation of Feelings
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, pp.1-37
Elsevier Science & Technology
1989
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60304-4
Abstract
The chapter discusses a few analyses conducted in contemporary social psychology that appear to be pertinent to the questions raised about the effects of aversive events. To simplify matters, these conceptions are divided into two fairly broad categories, depending upon the importance they ascribe to cognitive processes. All of the theories recognize that cognitions can have a major role in the formation and operation of emotions. The most popular approaches to the study of emotions in current social psychology assume that the person's thoughts and interpretations are virtually important in shaping the emotional experience. The aversive stimulation produces negative effect. The chapter presents four experiments illustrating the utility of a cognitive-neoassociationistic analysis of anger. According to this cognitive-neoassociationistic model, when people encounter an event, they would prefer to avoid or escape—either because of its inherent properties or because of their own appraisal of the event, a sequence of reactions is initiated that varies with both time and thought. The negative affect leads directly to both a primitive experience of anger and aggressive inclinations, as well as to a variety of other basic feelings and action tendencies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On the Construction of the Anger Experience: Aversive Events and Negative Priming in the Formation of Feelings
- Creators
- Leonard Berkowitz - University of Wisconsin–MadisonKaren Heimer - University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, pp.1-37
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science & Technology
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60304-4
- eISSN
- 1557-8410
- ISSN
- 0065-2601
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1989
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; Law Faculty; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984269239702771
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