isOutputOf affective appraisal process affective appraisal Appraisals are a part of emotion processes, representing how a triggering stimulus is relevant to the self. Appraisal captures the ‘aboutness’ of an emotion process. For example, a stimulus such as an image of a tiger can produce different emotion processes depending on how the relevance of this stimulus is evaluated. If the image of a tiger was on TV, this would likely not be evaluated as dangerous. However, an image of a tiger two meters away from a person would be relevant to a person in terms of its dangerousness. Therefore, an appraisal of the dangerouness of the tiger would be part of the emotion process 'fear'. There is no rigid sequence of the entities that are part of the emotion process -- an appraisal does not necessarily precede a physiological process part of the emotion process. A cognitive representation of the emotional relevance of an object or event to the organism. cognitive representation