What is Cognitive Appraisals

This chapter provides background and context for the importance of self-conscious emotions, particularly shame, pride, and envy/jealousy, in understanding fan behaviors. Particular attention is provided to how self-conscious emotions are elicited, how they differ from basic emotions such as anger and joy, the adaptive and maladaptive purposes that they each serve, how social identity and vicarious experience are connected to self-conscious emotions, and how researchers can utilize these topics to better understand fans and fan behaviors.