Background. Symptoms of compulsive repetition or “intrusion” (unwanted thoughts, [ ashbacks, images, disturbing dreams, nightmares) are o\ en considered as a distinctive feature post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Cognitive models claim that PTSD symptoms stimulated and become chronic due to an overly negative assessment the traumatic experience and/or its consequences. ] e relevance study i...

The subjective experience of cognitive dysfunction ("fibrofog") is common in fibromyalgia. This study investigated the relation between subjective appraisal of cognitive function, objective cognitive task performance, and brain activity during a cognitive task using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Sixteen fibromyalgia patients and 13 healthy pain-free controls completed a battery ...

BACKGROUND In the context of cognitive appraisal, the Work Conflict Appraisal Scale (WCAS) was developed to assess work conflict in terms of threat and challenge. METHOD In the first study, the factorial structure of the scale was tested using confirmatory factor analysis with a Spanish multi-occupational employee sample (N= 296). In the sec-ond study, we used multi-sampling confirmatory fact...

A compelling body of literature suggests that negative appraisal may be associated with adverse reactions to traumatic stress. However, very few studies have examined how appraisal influences posttraumatic adaptation in people with serious mental illness (SMI) despite evidence of disproportionately high prevalence rates of trauma exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in this populat...

Despite the importance that is attributed to coping as a factor in psychological and somatic health outcomes, little is known about actual coping processes, the variables that influence them, and their relation to the outcomes of the stressful encounters people experience in their day-to-day lives. This study uses an intraindividual analysis of the interrelations among primary appraisal (what w...

To allow better models of emotions integrated into cognitive architecture, we propose a memory framework which supports both traditional cognitive processes as well as appraisal theories of emotion. This is a new approach in emotion representation that we argue allows for deeper integration of emotion and cognition as well as greater emotional expressivity.

Based on appraisal theory (Lazarus 1991, 1999), this study examined the degree to which primary and secondary cognitive appraisals of hurtful messages predict the amount of hurt individuals feel, and the coping behaviors they enact. This study presents a significant step forward in its operationalization of both primary and secondary appraisal variables by treating hurt as an outcome, rather th...

The major assumptions of the appraisal approach to emotion, and progress in the development of two classes of models of emotion that embody this approach, are reviewed. The first class of model is structural and describes the relations between components of appraisal and components of the emotional response, such as subjective feeling state, facial actions, and autonomic activities. We present ...

In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), appraisal of the symbolic reality of an object (high cognitive engagement), and a strong feeling of ...

We explore the representational space of emotions by combining methods from different academic fields. Cognitive science has proposed appraisal theory as a view on human emotion with previous research showing how human-rated abstract event features can predict finegrained emotions and capture the similarity space of neural patterns in mentalizing brain regions. At the same time, natural languag...