Preston Jesse, Wegner Daniel M
Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2007 Apr;92(4):575-84. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.4.575.
The authors found that the feeling of authorship for mental actions such as solving problems is enhanced by effort cues experienced during mental activity; misattribution of effort cues resulted in inadvertent plagiarism. Pairs of participants took turns solving anagrams as they exerted effort on an unrelated task. People inadvertently plagiarized their partners' answers more often when they experienced high incidental effort while working on the problem and reduced effort as the solution appeared. This result was found for efforts produced when participants squeezed a handgrip during the task (Experiment 1) or when the anagram was displayed in a font that was difficult to read (Experiments 2, 3a, and 3b). Plagiarism declined, however, when participants attended to the source of the effort cues (Experiments 3a and 3b). These results suggest that effort misattribution can influence authorship processing for mental activities.
作者发现，诸如解决问题等心理活动的自主感会因心理活动中体验到的努力线索而增强；努力线索的错误归因会导致无意的剽窃行为。参与者两两一组轮流解纵横字谜，同时他们在一项不相关的任务上付出努力。当人们在解决问题时体验到高附带努力且随着答案出现努力减少时，他们会更频繁地无意剽窃同伴的答案。当参与者在任务中挤压握力器时产生的努力（实验1），或者当纵横字谜以难以阅读的字体显示时（实验2、3a和3b），都发现了这一结果。然而，当参与者关注努力线索的来源时，剽窃行为减少了（实验3a和3b）。这些结果表明，努力的错误归因会影响心理活动的自主感处理。
