Huntsinger Jeffrey R, Lun Janetta, Sinclair Stacey, Clore Gerald L
Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2009 Jul;35(7):909-22. doi: 10.1177/0146167209335299.
We investigated whether the desire to have a smooth and pleasant interaction with an anticipated interaction partner caused participants' moods to become similar to their imminent partners' moods. We found evidence of anticipatory mood matching when participants were motivated to affiliate with a partner through goal priming (Experiments 1 and 2) and outcome dependency (Experiment 3). Prior research has demonstrated mood contagion arising from actual social interaction but these experiments establish contagion without contact, an outcome evident regardless of whether mood was assessed via self-report (Experiments 1 through 3) or information-processing style (Experiment 3).
我们研究了与预期互动伙伴进行顺畅愉快互动的愿望是否会使参与者的情绪变得与即将互动的伙伴的情绪相似。我们发现，当参与者通过目标启动（实验1和2）和结果依赖（实验3）有动机与伙伴建立联系时，存在预期情绪匹配的证据。先前的研究已经证明了实际社会互动中产生的情绪感染，但这些实验证明了无需接触的感染，无论情绪是通过自我报告（实验1至3）还是信息处理方式（实验3）进行评估，这一结果都是明显的。
