William Campbell

Michael Schenk

Angela Schorr

Never before has the discipline of communication been more exciting, diverse, and innovative than it is today. This volume reflects the current developments in communication research and media science with topics including audience research, internet communication, organizational communication, studies on media use and effects, and educational and intercultural media. It represents the voices of over 40 European and North American scholars. Reflecting similarities and differences in media culture in Europe and abroad, the volume contains many important contributions from an insider point of view to European media research.

Perspectives for Research and Academic Training in Europe's Changing Media Reality

Communication Research and Media Science in Europe

Dieser Reader zur Publikums- und Wirkungsforschung kombiniert traditionelle und innovative Darstellungen zentraler Medienwirkungstheorien und ihrer Geschichte mit empirischen Fallstudien aus den Bereichen Printmedienforschung, Politische Kommunikation, Medienpsychologie und Neue Medien. Auf historische und systematische Kapitel, die aus verschiedenen Perspektiven sorgfältig und vertiefend in die Programmatik der Publikums- und Wirkungsforschung einführen, folgen vier bereits auf einem Niveau für Fortgeschrittene verfaßte Theoriekapitel, von den Vätern dieser Theorien selbst geschrieben und in dieser Form erstmals in deutscher Sprache publiziert. Die empirischen Studien, die den zweiten Teil des Readers ausmachen, greifen Fragestellungen aus der aktuellen Medienwirkungsforschung auf.

ein Reader

Publikums- und Wirkungsforschung

Ein Reader

Klaus R. Scherer

Tom Johnstone

The scientific study of emotion has long been dominated by theories emphasizing the subjective experience of emotions and their accompanying expressive and physiological responses. The processes by which different emotions are elicited has received less attention, the implicit assumption being that certain emotions arise automatically in response to certain types of events or situations. Such an assumption is incompatible with data showing that similar situations can provoke a range of emotions in different individuals, or even the same individual at different times. Appraisal theory, first suggested by Magda Arnold and Richard Lazarus, was formulated to address this shortcoming in our understanding of emotion. The central tenet of appraisal theory is that emotions are elicited according to an individual's subjective interpretation or evaluation of important events or situations. Appraisal research focuses on identifying the evaluative dimensions or criteria that predict which emotion will be elicited in an individual, as well as linking the appraisal process with the production of emotional responses. This book represents the first full-scale summary of the current state of appraisal research. Separate sections cover the history of apraisal theory and its fundamental ideas, the views of some of the major theorists currently active in the field, theoretical and methodological problems with the appraisal approach including suggestions for their resolution, social, cultural and individual differences and the application of appraisal theory to understanding and treating emotional pathology, and the methodology used in appraisal research including measuring and analyzing self-report, physiological, facial, and vocal indicators of appraisal, and simulating appraisal processes via computational models. Intended for advanced students and researchers in emotion psychology, it provides an authoritative assessment and critique of the current state of the art in appraisal research.

Theory, Methods, Research

Appraisal Processes in Emotion

Angela Schorr

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