Craig A Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig A Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9257-8528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 312 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Monroe Doctrine Redux
The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation-one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars
From collaboration to commemoration
This article examines Zhang Wojun (1902-1955) and the memory of his 'collaboration' with Japan during the Second World War. A Taiwanese-born writer and educator who lived in Beijing for 25 years, his drifting identity was full of ambiguities. Although he was one of the key intellectuals behind Taiwan's New-Old Literatures Debate and responsible for introducing many May Fourth ideas to Taiwan, he also played an important role in bringing Japanese …
Using Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory to Explain Individual Differences in the Appraisal of Problem-Focused Coping Potential
Appraisal theory assumes that the individual variability of emotional reactions to the same situation is due to individual differences in appraisal. However, the question of how interindividual differences in appraisal come about has been rarely formally addressed. We focus on one of the central dimensions of appraisal—problem-focused coping potential—and attempt to explain individual differences in appraisals along this dimension using self-effi…
Appraisal and coping predict health and well‐being during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
COVID‐19 has had a devastating impact on people worldwide. We conducted an international survey ( n = 3646) examining the degree to which people's appraisals and coping activities around the pandemic predicted their health and well‐being. We obtained subsamples from 12 countries—Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Turkey and the United States. For each, we assessed appraisals and coping s…
The Ghost of Asianism in China's Diplomatic Slogans
Coined in 2013, the year the Belt and Road Initiative was first announced, the slogan 'Amity, Sincerity, Mutual Benefit, and Inclusiveness' has become ever more present in the speeches of Chinese officials and diplomats. While the use of such phrases is often equated with earlier Japanese discourse to indicate China's alleged imperialist ambitions, this essay calls for nuance in such comparisons through a reconsideration of the history of 'Asiani…
Translating the Occupation
From 1931 to 1945, as Japanese imperialism spread throughout China, three distinct regions experienced life under occupation: Manchukuo, East China, and North China. Yet despite the enduring importance of the occupation to world history and historical memory in East Asia, Translating the Occupation is the first English-language volume to make available key sources from this period to both scholars and students. Contributors have translated texts …
Covid-19 and China’s Five-Year Plan to create a ‘xiaokang’ society
2020 is the final year in the People’s Republic of China’s Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, the blueprint for economic development in the ‘New Era’ of current President Xi Jinping
Chinese Asianism in the Early Republic
Until recent decades, historians of modern East Asia generally considered Asianism to be an imperialistic ideology of militant Japan. Although Japanese expansionists certainly used the term and its concept in this way in the 1930s and 1940s, earlier proponents of Asianism looked upon it as a very real strategy of uniting Asian nations to defend against Western imperialism. Showing that Chinese intellectuals considered different forms of Asianism …
The rise of New Confucianism and the return of spirituality to politics in mainland China
In the past two decades, the revival of New Confucianism in mainland China has accelerated and become a crucial component of the intellectual public sphere. New Confucians have appeared alongside the larger groups of liberals and the New Left, often developing in dialogue or contrast with these intellectual neighbours. As part of the series of research dialogues on mapping the intellectual public sphere in China, this article examines recent disc…
China as the Leader of the Weak and Small
Frustrated with the “white imperialism” of the League of Nations and the “red imperialism” of the Third Communist International, a number of Chinese intellectuals began discussing possibilities for a third option during the interwar years. Turning away from liberalism and Marxism, they examined Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People and began working to promote his Principle of Nationalism as a concept that focused on the ruoxiao (weak and …
I Alone” vs. “Stronger Together”
Nomination acceptance addresses perform two major functions: They reconstitute the factions splintered by the primaries into a unified party and they frame the general election campaign as a clash between two narrative visions of America. In 2016, Donald Trump co-opted Republicans into his empire, conflated imagining and remembering to envision an American dystopia caused mainly by Clinton, claimed that he alone could fix things using unspecified…
In-Your-Face Politics
President Bush's Enthymeme of Evil
Ted Windt's description of presidential crisis rhetoric helps explain the successes and the difficulties of President Bush's war on terror. Immediately after the attacks, the president moved rhetorically to provide reassurance and to delegate policy direction. But President Bush's rhetorical transformation of a faceless coward's attack on our country into evil's attack on everything good and proper in the world prepared us to respond against enem…
Appraisal Theory Overview, Assumptions, Varieties, Controversies
What is appraisal theory? In simplest form, its essence is the claim that emotions are elicited by evaluations (appraisals) of events and situations. For example, sadness felt when a romantic relationship ends may be elicited by the appraisals that something desired has been lost, with certainty, and cannot be recovered (Roseman, 1984; see, e.g., Frijda, 1986; Oatley & Johnson-Laird, 1987; Scherer, 1993b; Smith & Lazarus, 1993; Stein & Levine, 19…
A Rhetorical Perspective on the 1997 British Party Manifestos
This article discusses the British political system's reliance on party manifestos and suggests that they deserve study as rhetorical texts. The magazine-like 1997 manifestos of the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal Democrat Parties are analyzed with respect to their iconic structure, the priority of policy domains in their social critiques, their historical narratives, and their narratives on the central issue of economics. Results suggest that …
Does God Determine Your Health? The God Locus of Health Control Scale
The 3 Ms
Bill Clinton and the 1996 Presidential Campaign
The 1996 campaign for president was never close. President Clinton's projected electoral votes never fell below the 271 he needed for re-election and Senator Dole peaked in March at 69 projected electoral votes. This essay uses two underutilized subnational data sets-the Hotline's "Electoral Scoreboards" and the Pew Center for the People and the Press's typology of American voters-to explain the apparent contradiction between Clinton's modest agg…
The White House Speaks
Journal Article The White House Speaks: Presidential Leadership as Persuasion. By Craig Allen Smith and Kathy B. Smith. (Westport: Praeger, 1994. xviii, 263 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-94394-1.) Get access Halford Ryan Halford Ryan Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1655–1656, https://doi.org/10.23…
Appraisal components, core relational themes, and the emotions
This study experimentally tests the contributions of specific appraisals, considered at both molecular (appraisal components) and molar (core relational themes) levels of analysis, to the experience of four emotions (anger, guilt, fear/anxiety, and sadness) using a two-stage directed imagery task. In Stage 1, subjects imagined themselves in scenarios designed to evoke appraisals hypothesised to produce either anger or sadness. In Stage 2, the sce…
Quit and win Wales
Institute for Health Promotion, Ffynnon las, Ty Glas Avenue, Llanishen, Cardiff CF4 5DZ Wales, UK J Catford Abstract Objective To assess the effectiveness of the 1990 pilot Quit and Win contest held in South East Wales (UK) in reducing smoking prevalence. Methods Follow-up surveys of the 687 entrants were conducted after four months and one year through postal self completion questionnaires. The question naires covered demographic background, smo…
In search of the "hot" cognitions
Adaptation in patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis
We derived a model of appraisal, coping, and adaptation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the more general theory of Lazarus and Folkman (1984) and examined this model using a longitudinal data set spanning 4 years and involving 239 RA patients (of whom 157 contributed to the primary analyses, with the remainder contributing to various follow-up analyses). This model attempted to identify the short- and long-term adaptational conseq…
Richard Nixon
Journal Article Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist. By Hal W. Bochin. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xiv + 223 pp. $39.95.) Get access Craig Allen Smith Craig Allen Smith University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1415–1416, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078383 Published: 01 March 1991
Dimensions of appraisal and physiological response in emotion
Appraisal theorists propose physiological activity in emotion to be systematically organized around appraisal of the adaptational significance of the environment in ways that promote two functions commonly ascribed to emotion: communication and preparation for coping. However, relations between appraisal and physiological activity remain largely untested. This article reviews existing evidence to generate specific hypotheses linking appraisal to …
Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion
There has long been interest in describing emotional experience in terms of underlying dimensions, but traditionally only two dimensions, pleasantness and arousal, have been reliably found. The reasons for these findings are reviewed, and integrating this review with two recent theories of emotions (Roseman, 1984; Scherer, 1982), we propose eight cognitive appraisal dimensions to differentiate emotional experience. In an investigation of this mod…
In search of the "hot" cognitions
The rise of New Confucianism and the return of spirituality to politics in mainland China
In the past two decades, the revival of New Confucianism in mainland China has accelerated and become a crucial component of the intellectual public sphere. New Confucians have appeared alongside the larger groups of liberals and the New Left, often developing in dialogue or contrast with these intellectual neighbours. As part of the series of research dialogues on mapping the intellectual public sphere in China, this article examines recent disc…
Patterns of appraisal and emotion related to taking an exam
Recent research has suggested strong relations between characteristic patterns of appraisal along emotionally relevant dimensions and the experience of specific emotions. However, this work has relied primarily upon ratings of remembered or imagined past events associated with the experience of relatively pure emotions. The present investigation is an attempt to examine cognitive appraisals and emotions during an emotional event in which subjects…
A Rhetorical Perspective on the 1997 British Party Manifestos
This article discusses the British political system's reliance on party manifestos and suggests that they deserve study as rhetorical texts. The magazine-like 1997 manifestos of the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal Democrat Parties are analyzed with respect to their iconic structure, the priority of policy domains in their social critiques, their historical narratives, and their narratives on the central issue of economics. Results suggest that …
Dimensions of appraisal and physiological response in emotion
Appraisal theorists propose physiological activity in emotion to be systematically organized around appraisal of the adaptational significance of the environment in ways that promote two functions commonly ascribed to emotion: communication and preparation for coping. However, relations between appraisal and physiological activity remain largely untested. This article reviews existing evidence to generate specific hypotheses linking appraisal to …
Adaptation in patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis
We derived a model of appraisal, coping, and adaptation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the more general theory of Lazarus and Folkman (1984) and examined this model using a longitudinal data set spanning 4 years and involving 239 RA patients (of whom 157 contributed to the primary analyses, with the remainder contributing to various follow-up analyses). This model attempted to identify the short- and long-term adaptational conseq…
President Bush's Enthymeme of Evil
Ted Windt's description of presidential crisis rhetoric helps explain the successes and the difficulties of President Bush's war on terror. Immediately after the attacks, the president moved rhetorically to provide reassurance and to delegate policy direction. But President Bush's rhetorical transformation of a faceless coward's attack on our country into evil's attack on everything good and proper in the world prepared us to respond against enem…
Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion
There has long been interest in describing emotional experience in terms of underlying dimensions, but traditionally only two dimensions, pleasantness and arousal, have been reliably found. The reasons for these findings are reviewed, and integrating this review with two recent theories of emotions (Roseman, 1984; Scherer, 1982), we propose eight cognitive appraisal dimensions to differentiate emotional experience. In an investigation of this mod…
Patterns of appraisal and emotion related to taking an exam
Recent research has suggested strong relations between characteristic patterns of appraisal along emotionally relevant dimensions and the experience of specific emotions. However, this work has relied primarily upon ratings of remembered or imagined past events associated with the experience of relatively pure emotions. The present investigation is an attempt to examine cognitive appraisals and emotions during an emotional event in which subjects…
From appraisal to emotion
Shades of Joy
Pleasant experience appears to be less emotionally differentiated than unpleasant experience. For instance, theories of emotion typically posit the existence of six or seven unpleasant emotions but often posit only one or two pleasant emotions. The present study is an attempt to systematically examine the differentiation of pleasant emotional experience. Subjects were asked to recall pleasant experiences that were associated with particular situa…
Knowledge and Appraisal in the Cognition—Emotion Relationship
Recently there has been considerable theoretical and empirical work attempting to identify specific cognitive dimensions that shape the emotional response. However, this work has almost universally neglected an important theoretical distinction between two types of cognition relevant to emotion: knowledge and appraisal. Knowledge has to do with the facts of an adaptational encounter, whereas appraisal defines the personal significance of an encou…
Dimensions of appraisal and physiological response in emotion
Appraisal theorists propose physiological activity in emotion to be systematically organized around appraisal of the adaptational significance of the environment in ways that promote two functions commonly ascribed to emotion: communication and preparation for coping. However, relations between appraisal and physiological activity remain largely untested. This article reviews existing evidence to generate specific hypotheses linking appraisal to …
Richard Nixon
Journal Article Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist. By Hal W. Bochin. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xiv + 223 pp. $39.95.) Get access Craig Allen Smith Craig Allen Smith University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1415–1416, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078383 Published: 01 March 1991
Adaptation in patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis
We derived a model of appraisal, coping, and adaptation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the more general theory of Lazarus and Folkman (1984) and examined this model using a longitudinal data set spanning 4 years and involving 239 RA patients (of whom 157 contributed to the primary analyses, with the remainder contributing to various follow-up analyses). This model attempted to identify the short- and long-term adaptational conseq…
Appraisal components, core relational themes, and the emotions
This study experimentally tests the contributions of specific appraisals, considered at both molecular (appraisal components) and molar (core relational themes) levels of analysis, to the experience of four emotions (anger, guilt, fear/anxiety, and sadness) using a two-stage directed imagery task. In Stage 1, subjects imagined themselves in scenarios designed to evoke appraisals hypothesised to produce either anger or sadness. In Stage 2, the sce…
Quit and win Wales
Institute for Health Promotion, Ffynnon las, Ty Glas Avenue, Llanishen, Cardiff CF4 5DZ Wales, UK J Catford Abstract Objective To assess the effectiveness of the 1990 pilot Quit and Win contest held in South East Wales (UK) in reducing smoking prevalence. Methods Follow-up surveys of the 687 entrants were conducted after four months and one year through postal self completion questionnaires. The question naires covered demographic background, smo…
In search of the "hot" cognitions
The White House Speaks
Journal Article The White House Speaks: Presidential Leadership as Persuasion. By Craig Allen Smith and Kathy B. Smith. (Westport: Praeger, 1994. xviii, 263 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-94394-1.) Get access Halford Ryan Halford Ryan Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1655–1656, https://doi.org/10.23…
The 3 Ms
Bill Clinton and the 1996 Presidential Campaign
The 1996 campaign for president was never close. President Clinton's projected electoral votes never fell below the 271 he needed for re-election and Senator Dole peaked in March at 69 projected electoral votes. This essay uses two underutilized subnational data sets-the Hotline's "Electoral Scoreboards" and the Pew Center for the People and the Press's typology of American voters-to explain the apparent contradiction between Clinton's modest agg…
Does God Determine Your Health? The God Locus of Health Control Scale
A Rhetorical Perspective on the 1997 British Party Manifestos
This article discusses the British political system's reliance on party manifestos and suggests that they deserve study as rhetorical texts. The magazine-like 1997 manifestos of the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal Democrat Parties are analyzed with respect to their iconic structure, the priority of policy domains in their social critiques, their historical narratives, and their narratives on the central issue of economics. Results suggest that …
Appraisal Theory Overview, Assumptions, Varieties, Controversies
What is appraisal theory? In simplest form, its essence is the claim that emotions are elicited by evaluations (appraisals) of events and situations. For example, sadness felt when a romantic relationship ends may be elicited by the appraisals that something desired has been lost, with certainty, and cannot be recovered (Roseman, 1984; see, e.g., Frijda, 1986; Oatley & Johnson-Laird, 1987; Scherer, 1993b; Smith & Lazarus, 1993; Stein & Levine, 19…
President Bush's Enthymeme of Evil
Ted Windt's description of presidential crisis rhetoric helps explain the successes and the difficulties of President Bush's war on terror. Immediately after the attacks, the president moved rhetorically to provide reassurance and to delegate policy direction. But President Bush's rhetorical transformation of a faceless coward's attack on our country into evil's attack on everything good and proper in the world prepared us to respond against enem…
In-Your-Face Politics
China as the Leader of the Weak and Small
Frustrated with the “white imperialism” of the League of Nations and the “red imperialism” of the Third Communist International, a number of Chinese intellectuals began discussing possibilities for a third option during the interwar years. Turning away from liberalism and Marxism, they examined Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People and began working to promote his Principle of Nationalism as a concept that focused on the ruoxiao (weak and …
I Alone” vs. “Stronger Together”
Nomination acceptance addresses perform two major functions: They reconstitute the factions splintered by the primaries into a unified party and they frame the general election campaign as a clash between two narrative visions of America. In 2016, Donald Trump co-opted Republicans into his empire, conflated imagining and remembering to envision an American dystopia caused mainly by Clinton, claimed that he alone could fix things using unspecified…
The rise of New Confucianism and the return of spirituality to politics in mainland China
In the past two decades, the revival of New Confucianism in mainland China has accelerated and become a crucial component of the intellectual public sphere. New Confucians have appeared alongside the larger groups of liberals and the New Left, often developing in dialogue or contrast with these intellectual neighbours. As part of the series of research dialogues on mapping the intellectual public sphere in China, this article examines recent disc…
Chinese Asianism in the Early Republic
Until recent decades, historians of modern East Asia generally considered Asianism to be an imperialistic ideology of militant Japan. Although Japanese expansionists certainly used the term and its concept in this way in the 1930s and 1940s, earlier proponents of Asianism looked upon it as a very real strategy of uniting Asian nations to defend against Western imperialism. Showing that Chinese intellectuals considered different forms of Asianism …
Covid-19 and China’s Five-Year Plan to create a ‘xiaokang’ society
2020 is the final year in the People’s Republic of China’s Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, the blueprint for economic development in the ‘New Era’ of current President Xi Jinping
Translating the Occupation
From 1931 to 1945, as Japanese imperialism spread throughout China, three distinct regions experienced life under occupation: Manchukuo, East China, and North China. Yet despite the enduring importance of the occupation to world history and historical memory in East Asia, Translating the Occupation is the first English-language volume to make available key sources from this period to both scholars and students. Contributors have translated texts …
Psychology (17 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Appraisal theory (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works)