Department of Psychology.
Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Comportement Social, Departement de Psychologie, Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2013 Jan;104(1):180-195. doi: 10.1037/a0029585. Epub 2012 Aug 13.
Four studies investigated the impact of success and failure information on passionate individuals' performance. Obsessive passion, characterized by a rigid and defensive mode of functioning, predicted greater performance in domains both related and unrelated to the passionate activity in response to exposure to failure information. Conversely, harmonious passion, characterized by a flexible, nondefensive mode of functioning, was found to be unaffected by success or failure information. These performance effects were deeply ingrained, did not require conscious thought, and were automatically activated after unconscious exposure to failure-related words. In addition, the present research evinced that following failure information, obsessive passion predicted increases of performance through its effect on fear of failure. However, performance augmented only when the performance task was framed in such a way that failure would entail important negative consequences for the self and not when framed as inconsequential.
四项研究调查了成功和失败信息对充满激情的个体表现的影响。痴迷型热情的特点是僵化和防御性的运作模式，与激情活动相关和不相关的领域的表现都预测在暴露于失败信息后会更好。相反，和谐型热情的特点是灵活和非防御性的运作模式，不受成功或失败信息的影响。这些表现效应根深蒂固，不需要有意识的思考，并且在无意识地暴露于与失败相关的单词后自动激活。此外，本研究表明，在失败信息之后，痴迷型热情通过对失败恐惧的影响来预测表现的提高。然而，只有当表现任务被构造成失败会对自我产生重要的负面后果，而不是无关紧要的后果时，表现才会增强。
