Appraisal ratings in diary reports of reasonable and unreasonable anger

Conference item

Forty-eight undergraduate students completed diaries reporting on up to five episodes of anger experienced over the course of a week. Ratings of motivational relevance, motivational incongruence and other-accountability appraisals were significantly lower for relatively less reasonable instances of anger. Multilevel modelling confirmed that rated reasonableness of anger was a significant continuous predictor of the same three appraisal dimensions, even after controlling for reported anger. These results extend earlier findings obtained using retrospective questionnaires, suggesting that reportable other-blame-related appraisals are generally weaker when anger is perceived as unreasonable. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Authors: Parkinson, B; Roper, A; Simons, G

• Publication status: Published
• Host title: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 82-87
• Publication date: 2009-02-01
• DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.470
• EISSN: 1099-0992
• ISSN: 0046-2772