John Buhler Research Centre, Psychiatric Neuroimaging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
J Pers. 2011 Apr;79(2):335-58. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00687.x.
People have a fundamental motivation for social connection and social engagement, but how do they decide whom to approach in ambiguous social situations? Subjective feelings often influence such decisions, but people vary in awareness of their feelings. We evaluated two opposing hypotheses based on visual familiarity effects and emotional awareness on social approachability judgments. These hypotheses differ in their interpretation of the familiarity or mere exposure effect with either an affective or cognitive interpretation. The responses of our 128-student sample supported the cognitive interpretation. Lower emotional awareness or higher alexithymia was associated with higher approachability judgments to familiarized faces and lower approachability judgments to novel faces. These findings were independent of the Big Five personality factors. The results indicate that individual differences in emotional awareness should be integrated into social decision-making models. The results also suggest that cognitive-perceptual alterations may underlie the poorer social outcomes associated with alexithymia.
人们有社交联系和社交参与的基本动机，但在模棱两可的社交情境中，他们如何决定接近谁？主观感受往往会影响这些决定，但人们对自己的感受的意识程度不同。我们评估了基于视觉熟悉度效应和情绪意识的两种相反的假设，这些假设对熟悉或仅仅是暴露效应的解释有情感或认知的解释。我们的 128 名学生样本的反应支持了认知解释。较低的情绪意识或较高的述情障碍与对熟悉面孔的更高接近度判断和对新面孔的更低接近度判断有关。这些发现与五大人格因素无关。研究结果表明，情绪意识的个体差异应该被整合到社会决策模型中。研究结果还表明，认知-知觉的改变可能是述情障碍与较差的社会结果相关的基础。
