Milhau Audrey, Brouillet Thibaut, Brouillet Denis
EPSYLON Laboratory (EA 4456), University Montpellier III, Montpellier, France.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2013 Oct;144(2):243-9. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.06.008. Epub 2013 Aug 7.
This study aims to demonstrate the effect of action fluency on emotional evaluation, specifically to show that neutral words can be evaluated positively or negatively depending on motor activity and evaluative setting. Right-handers naturally tend to associate positive (negative) valence to the right (left) part of space (Casasanto, 2009). We extend these associations to lateralized behaviors by studying the combined effect of motor fluency of lateral arm movements and the evaluative scale on the subjective evaluation of neutral words. Three experiments evidenced that, for right-handers, the realization of fluent rightward arm movements and the use of an evaluative scale congruent with their valence/laterality associations (left negative, right positive) led to a positive evaluation of neutral words, while non-fluent leftward movements and an incongruent scale led to a negative evaluation. This study demonstrates that emotion-action associations are experience-based, and influenced by functional and situational constraints.
本研究旨在证明动作流畅性对情绪评估的影响，具体而言，是要表明中性词的评估可能为积极或消极，这取决于运动活动和评估环境。右利手自然倾向于将积极（消极）效价与空间的右侧（左侧）相关联（卡萨桑托，2009年）。我们通过研究手臂侧向运动的运动流畅性和评估量表对中性词主观评估的综合影响，将这些关联扩展到侧向行为。三个实验证明，对于右利手来说，流畅的右臂向右运动以及使用与其效价/侧向关联一致（左负右正）的评估量表会导致对中性词的积极评估，而非流畅的向左运动和不一致的量表则会导致消极评估。本研究表明，情绪 - 动作关联是基于经验的，并受功能和情境限制的影响。
