affective appraisal appraisal of congruence with ideals Can also be defined FOR SELF and FOR OTHER, where a special case of OTHER is 'society' (=> a judgement that an event violated laws or socially accepted norms) May want to distinguish violation of 'standards' from that of 'ideals', 'norms' and 'laws'. At the moment they are all lumped together. An affective appraisal which represents a judgement about whether an event is consistent with the person's standards or ideals.