Principled background: appraisal theory
the Emotional asconcern satisfaction process
- Concernscuriosity, familiarity, well-functioning, exercising, control, attachment, …
- Appraisalsmediate between occurrence of concern-relevant events andchanges of internal action tendencies
- Action tendenciesstates of readiness to achieve or maintain a given kind of relationship with the environment:stimulus-driven, not goal-oriented