North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, United States.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2012 Jul;38(7):858-69. doi: 10.1177/0146167212437792. Epub 2012 Mar 7.
Self-reports of approach motivation are unlikely to be sufficient in understanding the extent to which the individual reacts to appetitive cues in an approach-related manner. A novel implicit probe of approach tendencies was thus developed, one that assessed the extent to which positive affective (versus neutral) stimuli primed larger size estimates, as larger perceptual sizes co-occur with locomotion toward objects in the environment. In two studies (total N = 150), self-reports of approach motivation interacted with this implicit probe of approach motivation to predict individual differences in arrogance, a broad interpersonal dimension previously linked to narcissism, antisocial personality tendencies, and aggression. The results of the two studies were highly parallel in that self-reported levels of approach motivation predicted interpersonal arrogance in the particular context of high, but not low, levels of implicit approach motivation. Implications for understanding approach motivation, implicit probes of it, and problematic approach-related outcomes are discussed.
自我报告的趋近动机不太可能足以理解个体以趋近相关的方式对欲望线索做出反应的程度。因此，开发了一种新颖的趋近倾向内隐探测方法，该方法评估了积极的情感（相对于中性）刺激引发更大大小估计的程度，因为更大的感知大小与向环境中的物体运动同时发生。在两项研究中（总 N = 150），趋近动机的自我报告与这种趋近动机的内隐探测相互作用，预测了傲慢的个体差异，傲慢是一个广泛的人际维度，先前与自恋、反社会人格倾向和攻击性有关。两项研究的结果高度相似，自我报告的趋近动机水平在高而非低的内隐趋近动机水平的特定背景下预测了人际傲慢。讨论了理解趋近动机、对其的内隐探测以及有问题的趋近相关结果的意义。
