a School of Management , University of Haifa , Haifa , Israel.
Cogn Emot. 2013;27(8):1395-404. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2013.791615. Epub 2013 May 7.
Social interactions are heavily norm-based and these norms need to be learned. For this, the emotional reactions of other's in response to a norm transgression can serve as signals. We were able to show that when a group responds with anger to a norm transgressing behaviour, participants were better able to correctly infer the norm than when the group responded with sadness or emotional neutrality. We further tested a process-model showing that this inference is based on the participants' understanding of the groups' appraisals of the behaviour. That is, participants who were able to reverse engineer the underlying appraisal of norm-incompatibility from the emotion expressions inferred the norm more readily. Humans as a social species, require efficient means to quickly adapt to new situations and to perform flawlessly in social contexts. Emotion information is one of the instruments that can be used in this quest.
社会互动是高度基于规范的，这些规范需要学习。为此，他人对规范违反的情绪反应可以作为信号。我们能够表明，当一个群体对违反规范的行为表现出愤怒时，参与者比当群体表现出悲伤或情绪中立时，更能正确推断规范。我们进一步测试了一个过程模型，表明这种推断是基于参与者对群体对行为的评价的理解。也就是说，能够从情绪表达中推断出规范不兼容的潜在评价的参与者更容易推断出规范。人类作为一个社会性物种，需要有效的手段来快速适应新情况，并在社交环境中完美表现。情绪信息是可以用于此目的的工具之一。
