Jiang Tianjiao, Sun Lining, Zhu Lei
Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Handan Road 220, Shanghai SH 200433, China.
School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Road 3663, Shanghai SH 200062, China.
Conscious Cogn. 2015 Jul;34:33-42. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.02.018. Epub 2015 Mar 31.
There is increasing evidence demonstrating that power judgment is affected by vertical information. Such interaction between vertical space and power (i.e., response facilitation under space-power congruent conditions) is generally elicited in paradigms that require participants to explicitly evaluate the power of the presented words. The current research explored the possibility that explicit evaluative processing is not a prerequisite for the emergence of this effect. Here we compared the influence of vertical information on a standard explicit power evaluation task with influence on a task that linked power with stimuli in a more incidental manner, requiring participants to report whether the words represented people or animals or the font of the words. The results revealed that although the effect is more modest, the interaction between responses and power is also evident in an incidental task. Furthermore, we also found that explicit semantic processing is a prerequisite to ensure such an effect.
越来越多的证据表明，权力判断会受到垂直信息的影响。垂直空间与权力之间的这种相互作用（即空间 - 权力一致条件下的反应促进）通常在要求参与者明确评估所呈现单词的权力的范式中引发。当前的研究探讨了明确的评价性加工并非这种效应出现的先决条件的可能性。在这里，我们将垂直信息对标准明确权力评估任务的影响与对以更偶然的方式将权力与刺激联系起来的任务的影响进行了比较，该任务要求参与者报告单词代表的是人还是动物或者单词的字体。结果表明，尽管这种效应较为微弱，但在偶然任务中反应与权力之间的相互作用也很明显。此外，我们还发现明确的语义加工是确保这种效应的先决条件。
