 These participants were then given a questionnaire to complete that involved being instructed to explain, in Bippus and Young's words, “the most recent situation in which your feelings were hurt,” including aspects such as hurt that was caused by romantic partners, family members, close friends, etc.After this was done, both of the participants’ primary and secondary appraisals were measured.The results of this study went on to show that the primary and secondary appraisals of the participants were only meekly able to predict the coping mechanisms that the participants took part in, but, on the other hand, were rather strong predictors as to what emotion they ended up feeling, as those receiving the messages were more likely to be hurt when they viewed the messages as rather intended or out of spite instead of a misunderstood form of humor in bad taste.