Schubert Thomas W, Zickfeld Janis H, Seibt Beate, Fiske Alan Page
a Department of Psychology , University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway.
b Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) , Lisboa , Portugal.
Cogn Emot. 2018 Feb;32(1):174-184. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1268998. Epub 2016 Dec 26.
Feeling moved or touched can be accompanied by tears, goosebumps, and sensations of warmth in the centre of the chest. The experience has been described frequently, but psychological science knows little about it. We propose that labelling one's feeling as being moved or touched is a component of a social-relational emotion that we term kama muta (its Sanskrit label). We hypothesise that it is caused by appraising an intensification of communal sharing relations. Here, we test this by investigating people's moment-to-moment reports of feeling moved and touched while watching six short videos. We compare these to six other sets of participants' moment-to-moment responses watching the same videos: respectively, judgements of closeness (indexing communal sharing), reports of weeping, goosebumps, warmth in the centre of the chest, happiness, and sadness. Our eighth time series is expert ratings of communal sharing. Time series analyses show strong and consistent cross-correlations of feeling moved and touched and closeness with each other and with each of the three physiological variables and expert-rated communal sharing - but distinctiveness from happiness and sadness. These results support our model.
感动或触动可能伴随着泪水、鸡皮疙瘩以及胸口中央的温暖感。这种体验经常被描述，但心理学对此了解甚少。我们认为，将自己的感受标记为感动或触动是一种社会关系情感的组成部分，我们将其称为“卡马穆塔”（其梵文名称）。我们假设它是由对群体共享关系强化的评估所引发的。在此，我们通过调查人们在观看六部短视频时对感动和触动的即时报告来对此进行测试。我们将这些报告与另外六组观看相同视频的参与者的即时反应进行比较：分别是亲密感判断（衡量群体共享）、哭泣报告、鸡皮疙瘩、胸口中央的温暖感、幸福感和悲伤感。我们的第八个时间序列是群体共享的专家评分。时间序列分析表明，感动和触动与亲密感之间，以及它们与三个生理变量和专家评定的群体共享之间，都存在强烈且一致的交叉相关性——但与幸福感和悲伤感有所不同。这些结果支持了我们的模型。
