Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri.
Personal Disord. 2012 Jul;3(3):263-272. doi: 10.1037/a0024488. Epub 2011 Jul 4.
Emotion researchers have distinguished between automatic versus controlled processing of affective information. One previous study with a small sample size found that extreme levels of social anhedonia (SocAnh) in college students, which predicts future schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, is associated with problems in controlled affective processing on a primed evaluation task. The current study examined whether in a larger college student sample SocAnh but not elevated perceptual aberration/magical ideation (PerMag) was associated with poor controlled affective processing. On the primed evaluation task, primes and targets could be either affectively congruent or incongruent and participants judged the valence of targets. Previous research on this task has found that participants appear to use controlled processing in an attempt to counteract the influence of the prime in evaluating the target. In this study, compared to the PerMag (n = 48) and control groups (n = 338), people with extreme levels of social anhedonia (n = 62) exhibited increased affective interference as they were slower for incongruent than for congruent trials. In contrast, there were no differences between the PerMag and control groups. Overall, these results suggest that SocAnh, but not PerMag, is associated with poor controlled affective processing.
情绪研究人员已经区分了情感信息的自动处理和受控处理。一项先前的小规模研究发现，大学生中极度的社交快感缺失（SocAnh），预示着未来的精神分裂症谱系障碍，与启动评估任务中的受控情感处理问题有关。本研究在更大的大学生样本中检验了社交快感缺失（SocAnh），而不是感知偏差/魔幻思维（PerMag），是否与较差的受控情感处理有关。在启动评估任务中，启动和目标可以是情感一致的，也可以是情感不一致的，参与者判断目标的效价。关于这个任务的先前研究发现，参与者似乎使用受控处理来试图抵消启动对评估目标的影响。在这项研究中，与感知偏差/魔幻思维组（n = 48）和对照组（n = 338）相比，社会快感缺失水平极高的人（n = 62）在不一致的试次中比在一致的试次中反应更慢，表现出更大的情感干扰。相比之下，感知偏差/魔幻思维组和对照组之间没有差异。总的来说，这些结果表明，社交快感缺失（SocAnh），而不是感知偏差/魔幻思维（PerMag），与较差的受控情感处理有关。
