a Department of Psychology , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.
b Department of Psychology , Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich , Munich , Germany.
Cogn Emot. 2019 Feb;33(1):31-40. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1510380. Epub 2018 Aug 28.
Appraisal theories of emotion, and particularly the Component Process Model, have claimed over the past three decades that the different components of the emotion process (action tendencies, physiological reactions, expressions, and feeling experiences) are essentially driven by the results of multi-level cognitive appraisals and that the feeling component constitutes a central integration and representation of these processes. Given the complexity of the proposed architecture of emotion generation, comprehensive experimental tests of these predictions are difficult to perform and thus evidence has been slow to appear. Complementing earlier work on self-reported appraisal, a massive amount of empirical results from studies with experimental designs based on appraisal manipulation, using electroencephalographic and electromyographic measures, now confirms many of the theoretical predictions with respect to the effect of different appraisal checks, their interactions, and their exact timing. A major issue for future research is the nature of the coherence or synchronisation of the appraisal-driven components in the unfolding emotion process. It is suggested that interdisciplinary multi-team research will be needed to face the theoretical and methodological challenges of experimentally investigating the dynamics of the emotion process.
情绪评价理论，尤其是成分加工模型，在过去三十年中声称，情绪加工的不同成分（行动倾向、生理反应、表情和感受体验）本质上是由多层次认知评价的结果驱动的，而感受成分构成了这些过程的核心整合和表现。考虑到情绪产生的复杂结构，全面的实验测试这些预测是困难的，因此证据出现得很慢。在自我报告评价的早期工作基础上，现在，基于评价操作的实验设计的大量实证研究结果，使用脑电图和肌电图测量，证实了许多关于不同评价检查的效果、它们的相互作用及其确切时间的理论预测。未来研究的一个主要问题是评价驱动成分在展开的情绪过程中的一致性或同步性的性质。有人建议，需要跨学科的多团队研究来应对实验研究情绪过程动态的理论和方法学挑战。
