Buttaccio Daniel R, Hahn Sowon
Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, United States.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2010 Nov;135(3):343-8. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.09.004.
In the present research we investigated how action influences affective evaluation. In three experiments, participants conducted a sequence of go/no-go tasks, then evaluated the pleasantness of a novel shape. The results of Experiments 1 and 2 show that participants evaluated the shapes that appeared in the go trials more positively than the shapes that appeared in the no-go trials. In Experiment 3, the go/no-go task was conducted without the to-be-evaluated shapes present in the display. The results show that the shape stimuli following the go trials were evaluated more positively than the shape stimuli following the no-go trials, even when the shapes were not directly associated with the go/no-go task. Based on the present study, we suggest that activating or inhibiting a motoric action may play a critical role in modifying one's affective evaluation. Additionally, the present results suggest that effortful and non-default responses can negatively modulate affective evaluation by taxing an individual's cognitive load. Furthermore, we argue that individuals can potentially control their affective states through behavioral activation and inhibition.
在本研究中，我们调查了行动如何影响情感评价。在三个实验中，参与者进行了一系列的“执行/不执行”任务，然后对一个新形状的愉悦度进行评价。实验1和2的结果表明，参与者对出现在执行试验中的形状的评价比对出现在不执行试验中的形状更为积极。在实验3中，“执行/不执行”任务是在显示屏上不存在待评价形状的情况下进行的。结果表明，即使这些形状与“执行/不执行”任务没有直接关联，执行试验后的形状刺激比不执行试验后的形状刺激得到了更积极的评价。基于本研究，我们认为激活或抑制运动动作可能在改变一个人的情感评价中起关键作用。此外，目前的结果表明，费力的和非默认的反应会通过增加个体的认知负荷来负面调节情感评价。此外，我们认为个体可以通过行为激活和抑制来潜在地控制他们的情感状态。
