You and your date both witness a fight in a bar, but you each have very different emotional reactions to this event. You find it amusing, but your date becomes very afraid. Which theory of emotion best explains why you each would have different emotional reactions to the fight?

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Blimpie

20 July, 11:14

You and your date both witness a fight in a bar, but you each have very different emotional reactions to this event. You find it amusing, but your date becomes very afraid. Which theory of emotion best explains why you each would have different emotional reactions to the fight?

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Chump · Answer 1

Cognitive-mediational theory.

Explanation:

American psychologist Richard Lazarus proposed the cognitive-mediational theory, which aims to explain the connection existing between cognition, emotion, and stress. When we receive a stimulus, we make an appraisal - our mind makes assessments of the situation, both consciously and unconsciously, and derives a meaning from it. We will be aroused by the situation and produce an emotion response to it. Meaning and emotions derived from situations will be different for different individuals. That is why you and your date have dissimilar reactions.