
If you think these don’t really matter and they’re actually pretty easy, you’ll have less stress than someone who thinks they’re really difficult and will determine the outcome of the rest of their lives. Feeling stressed? Here’s how you can cope.Key Study: Social status and stress in Olive Baboons (Sapolsky, 1990).The fundamental claim of this theory is that how we think about a potential stressor (our appraisals) will affect how stressful it actually is. Along with Susan Folkman, they developed “the transactional model of stress and coping” to explain stress. Richard Lazarus was a pre-eminent psychologist in the field of stress research. Stress is a complex phenomenon that involves biological, psychological and environmental factors. The following study is one of many that supports this explanation. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.The most influential cognitive explanation of stress is based on “cognitive appraisals” – how we assess the relevance and potential harm of a stressor. If you believe you should have access to that content, please contact your librarian.įor librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. The institutional subscription may not cover the content that you are trying to access.

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Shibboleth / Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.Ĭhoose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. The aim of this chapter is to examine Lazarus's experiments on the emotions and appraisal in the light of these difficulties. Is the claim fundamentally a constitutive-conceptual one, according to which it belongs to the very "grammar" of the emotions that they are intentional states? Or is the claim a causal argument about how emotions are aroused? Are those two kinds of claims incompatible, or can one adopt both a conceptual-grammatical and a causal explanation of the affects? Lazarus did not find it easy to answer these questions, even as he pursued a major research program designed to do so. Lazarus's ideas about the role of "appraisal" or cognition in emotion were often tentative and confused, in part because of the difficulty he had in deciding what kind of claim it is that emotions are intentional states or actions. This chapter offers an analysis of the challenges he faced in his attempts to account for the meaning of the emotions. The American psychologist Richard Lazarus played an important role in the post-World War II history of research on the emotions.
