Alright. So in this video, we're going to go over Lazarus's cognitive mediational theory. And as the name suggests, this theory is going to be putting cognition kind of front and center. So the idea is that emotions are determined by our appraisal of a stimulus. The appraisal is thought to be immediate and unconscious, and it's going to lead to both the emotional experience and the physiological changes.

So this is the first time we've seen cognition coming before physiology in any of our theories. We would have our stimulus that would lead to our appraisal of that situation. You know, "oh my god. I'm in danger," for example. And then that would lead to our emotional experience of fear and any physiological changes or arousal.

So this is a nice theory. It does have some evidence supporting it. However, it really does downplay the role that physiology can have in shaping emotions, which, like we've talked about in our last three theories, we know for a fact does happen sometimes. You know? Imagine, like, an emergency situation.

Like, there's a good chance that you're going to feel kind of that spike of adrenaline well before you have time to process, appraise, and think about what you're actually feeling or thinking. So this is a nice explanation, but like with most of our theories, it's just not giving us the full explanation. It can't explain emotion in all situations. Alright. So that is Lazarus's cognitive mediational theory, and I will see you guys in our next one.

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