When something happens to you, you naturally evaluate how it affects your life. When you get a
good job offer, it usually makes you happy because it contributes to your goals of having a successful
career and making money. According to the cognitive appraisal approach to emotions, a situation
makes you happy when it contributes to your goals, with greater contributions leading to greater
happiness. Sadness is the opposite, indicating that a situation impedes accomplishment of your goals,
as when you do not get a job you want or get a puny raise. Anger occurs when someone blocks the
accomplishment of your goals—for example, when a fellow worker keeps you from being successful
at your work. Fear arises in situations that threaten your survival goals, such as when a car cuts you
off on the freeway and almost makes you crash. Disgust is basically a violation of your eating goals
and desire for bodily integrity, as when someone tries to feed you something repulsive like fried
worms, but can also extend to noneating situations such as sexual acts you consider depraved. In all
these cases, you experience different emotions because your appraisal of the situation produces a
judgment about its relevance to your goals.
When something happens to you, you naturally evaluate how it affects your life. When you get agood job offer, it usually makes you happy because it contributes to your goals of having a successfulcareer and making money. According to the cognitive appraisal approach to emotions, a situationmakes you happy when it contributes to your goals, with greater contributions leading to greaterhappiness. Sadness is the opposite, indicating that a situation impedes accomplishment of your goals,as when you do not get a job you want or get a puny raise. Anger occurs when someone blocks theaccomplishment of your goals—for example, when a fellow worker keeps you from being successfulat your work. Fear arises in situations that threaten your survival goals, such as when a car cuts youoff on the freeway and almost makes you crash. Disgust is basically a violation of your eating goalsand desire for bodily integrity, as when someone tries to feed you something repulsive like friedworms, but can also extend to noneating situations such as sexual acts you consider depraved. In allthese cases, you experience different emotions because your appraisal of the situation produces ajudgment about its relevance to your goals.
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