The significance assigned to an event or experience. The same bodily sensation or reminder may have different emotional consequences depending on its meaning, while real-world danger still requires assessment.
Evaluation of coping possibilities, control and available responses. In appraisal theory, evaluating the same event as controllable or uncontrollable can help explain differences in emotion.
Evaluation of whether an event matters to well-being or goals, and whether it involves benefit, harm or threat. The distinction from secondary appraisal concerns evaluative content; it need not imply two consciously experienced, strictly successive stages.
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