There is little agreement about how to characterize the social environnement productively in order to predict emotions. The article reviews several approaches, selecting a model of social relations in two dimensions, called here power and status. Predictive hypotheses about power-status outcome of social relations on four emotions - fear, anger, sadness, and joy - are supported in two studies.
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Theodore D. Kemper (1991) studied this question.