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Belief and feeling: Evidence for an accessibility model of emotional self-report.

Robinson, Michael D., Clore, Gerald L.·2002·Psychological Bulletin

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This review organizes a variety of phenomena related to emotional self-report. In doing so, the authors offer an accessibility model that specifies the types of factors that contribute to emotional self-reports under different reporting conditions. One important distinction is between emotion, which is episodic, experiential, and contextual, and beliefs about emotion, which are semantic, conceptual, and decontextualized. This distinction is important in understanding the discrepancies that often occur when people are asked to report on feelings they are currently experiencing versus those that they are not currently experiencing. The accessibility model provides an organizing framework for understanding self-reports of emotion and suggests some new directions for research.

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  • A key limitation of retrospective reports is that recall of past experience can be heavily influenced by enduring beliefs individuals hold about themselves and their implicit theories about relations between variables.

    “A key limitation of retrospective reports is that recall of past experience can be heavily influenced by the enduring beliefs individuals hold about themselves, including how they typically feel or respond, and their implicit theories about the relations between variables (Robinson & Clore, 2002).”

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Authors
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L.
Affiliations
  • North Dakota State University (US)
  • University of Virginia (US)
Venue
Psychological Bulletin
Published
2002-11
Volume
128
Issue
6
Pages
934-960
ISSN
  • 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1455
OpenAlex
W2131975628
Cited by
1,806
References
263
Citations by year
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FWCI
36.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (MH-50074, R01MH050074)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
accessibility model, beliefs about emotions, emotions, feelings
MeSH terms
Affect, Culture, Humans, Memory, Self-Assessment, Semantics, Stereotyping

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