School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR47TJ, UK.
Behav Ther. 2010 Mar;41(1):73-81. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2009.01.002. Epub 2009 Jun 10.
Training participants to select threat or nonthreat interpretations of emotionally ambiguous stimuli or passively exposing them to valenced scenarios can modify later interpretation of ambiguity. However, only when encouraged to actively select meanings do congruent changes in emotional response occur during training itself (Mathews & Mackintosh, 2000). The present study assessed the more critical question of whether active training is also necessary for modifying subsequent emotional responses to images of new ambiguous scenarios presented after training. As predicted, active training did lead participants to rate their images of emotionally ambiguous scenarios as being more unpleasant after training as compared to a matched passive condition. This finding supports the view that active generation of meaning during interpretive training is critical for the modification of later emotional responses.
培训参与者选择情绪模糊刺激的威胁或非威胁解释，或被动地让他们接触有价值的场景，可以改变对模糊性的后续解释。然而，只有在被鼓励主动选择意义时，在训练过程中才会发生与情绪反应相一致的变化（Mathews & Mackintosh, 2000）。本研究评估了一个更关键的问题，即主动训练对于训练后呈现的新的情绪模糊场景图像的后续情绪反应的改变是否也是必要的。正如预测的那样，与匹配的被动条件相比，主动训练确实导致参与者在训练后将他们的情绪模糊场景图像评为更不愉快。这一发现支持了这样一种观点，即在解释性训练中主动生成意义对于后期情绪反应的改变至关重要。
