On the Profits and Perils of Guessing Right: Effects of Situational Expectations for Emotions on the Correspondence of Inferences

Emotions seem to have the quality of being evoked by situational forces. If people assume the presence of situational forces for emotions, trait inferences for emotions may be less correspondent even when situations are invisible. Moreover, a manipulation of situational constraint information should have relatively little impact on trait inferences for emotions. Two experiments examined the effect of situational constraint information on trait...