Cognitive appraisal
Γνωστική αποτίμηση
The evaluation you make of what a situation means for you and of what you have to meet it with, which is what produces the state you then feel. Read this way, a feeling is a report about an evaluation, so the useful question is what exactly it evaluated and when.
How to spot it
When the bad feeling arrives, ask which week it started in: an appraisal has a date, a mood does not.
The research behind the term
The term is not our invention. It comes from published research, and what follows is what that research found — our own synthesis of the published abstract, not a translation of the original.
Lazarus, R. S., & Folkman, S. (1984). Stress, Appraisal, and Coping — πηγή
Lazarus and Folkman present one of the most important theories of stress management. They argue that stress depends on how the individual appraises a situation and on the coping strategies they use. The theory is widely applied in health psychology and in education.
Practised in
The term does not stay a definition. It appears inside missions where the pattern happens in real time and you have to recognise it as it happens to you.
The Message With No Subject
The Yes That Sits Badly
Sources
Every claim on this page maps to published research. The citations link to the original source.
- Lazarus, R. S., & Folkman, S. (1984). Stress, Appraisal, and Coping — Source on search.worldcat.org