Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Emotion. 2010 Dec;10(6):915-22. doi: 10.1037/a0020306.
Two studies examined whether appraisals can be differentially affected by subliminal anger and sadness primes. Participants from Singapore (Experiment 1) and China (Experiment 2) were exposed to either subliminal angry faces or subliminal sad faces. Supporting appraisal theories of emotions, participants exposed to subliminal angry faces were more likely to appraise negative events as caused by other people and those exposed to subliminal sad faces were more likely to appraise the same events as caused by situational factors. The results provide the first evidence for subliminal emotion-specific cognitive effects. They show that cognitive functions such as appraisals can be affected by subliminal emotional stimuli of the same valence.
两项研究考察了潜意识愤怒和悲伤启动是否会对评价产生不同的影响。来自新加坡（实验 1）和中国（实验 2）的参与者分别接触到潜意识愤怒面孔或潜意识悲伤面孔。支持情绪的评价理论，接触潜意识愤怒面孔的参与者更有可能将负面事件归因于他人，而接触潜意识悲伤面孔的参与者更有可能将相同的事件归因于情境因素。结果为潜意识情绪特异性认知效应提供了首个证据。它们表明，评价等认知功能可能会受到相同效价的潜意识情绪刺激的影响。
