Richard Lazarus (1993) emphasized cognitive appraisal initially in his influential theory of psychological stress and later in one of the first appraisal theories of human emotion.

This is a distinction made by Richard Lazarus, whose stress appraisal theory was a seminal influence on the study of stress.

Cognitive Appraisal Theory, developed by psychologists Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman, posits that our emotional responses are shaped by our personal interpretations of events, rather than the ...