emotions, holding for all age groups and for both genres: the mentioning of tears or of a particular facial expression clearly coincided with characterizations of sad situations (see Table 2 for the exact figures). (Note that the percentage figures given are based on an n of 20.) EAPUCHMESS OF LHe IMlENHONaIly OF ine action As can be seen from Table 3, sad scenarios are much more likely to be characterized in terms of an action that was carried out unintentionally. This observation holds more
— << Oe ee ee eee Although there are a few children who explicitly state that the action that has led to a sad experience was unjust, this nevertheless is a very small minority, and does not hold at all for generalized sad experiences. However, as can be seen from Table 4, to mention explicitly that an action was not justified seems to be of high relevance for the construction of anger scenarios; though interestingly much more so for those scenarios in which anger was self-experienced, i.e.