noticed something today.
in answering questions of what emotion do you see and why the participants were answering not my question: "why did you say that emotion was expressed--what did you see or hear?" but a completely different question: "why do you think he/she was feeling the emotion that you think he was feeling. What would that person's reason for feeling that way be?"
in other words, they are doing a sort of "reverse appraisal." That is the opposite of what Scherer says that when we understand a situation and that appraisal/understanding causes us to feel and express an emotion. particularly i noticed this occuring when the 'denotative' situation and the participants expectations of what emotions 'ought to be' expressed did not exactly match.
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