to devise new theories to account for the effects of cognition on emotion. Cognitive Appraisal Theory was formulated by Magda Arnold, Richard Lazarus, and other psychological researchers beginning in the 1960s, and it continues to be refined today. Cognitive Appraisal Theory holds that people do not experience emotions directly from environmental events, but rather through their cognitive appraisal, or interpretation, of those events. For example, if a sleeping person is awakened in the middle of the night by sounds of movement in their house, the person will likely experience strong fear if they interpret the sound as coming from a burglar, but wil
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