The purpose of this study is to investigate how regular people view the contempt emotion. PSYCH100 and PSYCH105 undergraduate participants were recruited through the SONA subject pool in exchange for course credit. On a Qualtrics survey, participants were randomly assigned to write about a time they felt anger, pride or contempt. While thinking of this emotion episode, participants completed the evaluative space model (ESM; Cacioppo & Bernston, 1994), and other measures of subjective feelings and cognitive appraisals. At the end participants completed open-ended questions to gauge their understanding of contempt and were instructed to draw their ideas of the contempt facial expression.