You are just ready to pull into a parking place when another driver pulls into the spot from the opposite direction. When you re
alize that the driver didn't see you, you shrug and drive on. A minute later a different car pulls into your parking place, but you realize that this driver did see you. In this situation, you become very angry. Your different emotions in the two situations demonstrate the importance of ______________ as a component of emotion.
Cognitive appraisal has to do with how the human brain provides certain scenarios. What influences this are the importance attached to what happened in the scenario and also if the individual decides to dwell on the event.
In the first instance you drove off because your brain already interpreted the message that the this driver didn't see you. But in the second scenario, you got angry because you know he saw you but still took the space regardless
