Hamilton J, Cole S N
Department of Psychology, York St. John University, York, United Kingdom.
Department of Psychology, York St. John University, York, United Kingdom.
Conscious Cogn. 2017 Jul;52:9-20. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.04.015. Epub 2017 Apr 24.
Thinking about our possible selves can entail thinking about self-related imagined future events. When remembering and imagining, individuals can use both 1st person (field) and 3rd person (observer) perspectives. There is currently a paucity of research examining the visual perspectives of episodic future thoughts that represent possible selves. We hypothesised that temporally distant self-images would elicit more observer perspectives in episodic thoughts than temporally near self-images and current self-images. Utilising a repeated measures design, sixty-eight undergraduate students completed IAM, I Will Be near and I Will Be far conditions (Rathbone, Conway, & Moulin, 2011) to generate self-images and their related episodic thoughts. It was found that episodic qualities were reliably affected by different self-images. Specifically, observer perspective predilections increased with future temporal distance. Findings are discussed in relation to self-continuity with recommended practical applications of visual perspective utilisation for wellbeing.
思考我们可能成为的自己，可能需要思考与自我相关的想象中的未来事件。在回忆和想象时，个体可以使用第一人称（身临其境）和第三人称（旁观者）视角。目前，针对代表可能自我的情景式未来思维的视觉视角进行研究的还很少。我们假设，在情景式思维中，时间上遥远的自我形象比时间上接近的自我形象和当前的自我形象会引发更多的旁观者视角。采用重复测量设计，68名本科生完成了“我是”、“我将在近处”和“我将在远处”三种情境（拉思伯恩、康威和穆林，2011年），以生成自我形象及其相关的情景式思维。研究发现，情景式特质确实受到不同自我形象的影响。具体而言，旁观者视角偏好随着未来时间距离的增加而增加。我们将结合自我连续性来讨论研究结果，并推荐视觉视角运用对幸福感的实际应用。
