Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
Law Hum Behav. 2017 Aug;41(4):333-343. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000244. Epub 2017 May 1.
Research on embodied cognition and priming show that human behavior is influenced nonconsciously by the environment in metaphoric ways. Previous research has shown that conceptual priming can lead people to disclose sensitive information (Davis, Soref, Villalobos, & Mikulincer, 2016; Dawson, Hartwig, & Brimbal, 2015). Here, we sought to examine whether concepts of openness can be activated to promote disclosure within the interview itself, through the physical setting. In two laboratory studies, participants were exposed to details of a mock environmental terrorism conspiracy through a courier task, which they were subsequently interviewed about in different settings. In Study 1, participants were interviewed in either a room designed to activate openness, or a prototypically enclosed, bare custodial interview room. In Study 2, we manipulated both architectural and interior features of both rooms. Challenging the status quo that a small room is optimal for investigative interviewing, our findings offer compelling evidence that the spaciousness of an interview room can influence a person's tendency to be "open" with or "closed" about information. (PsycINFO Database Record
具身认知和启动研究表明，人类行为会以隐喻的方式受到环境的无意识影响。先前的研究表明，概念启动可以促使人们披露敏感信息（Davis、Soref、Villalobos 和 Mikulincer，2016；Dawson、Hartwig 和 Brimbal，2015）。在这里，我们试图通过物理环境来检验，开放性的概念是否可以在面试过程中被激活，从而促进信息披露。在两项实验室研究中，参与者通过快递任务暴露于模拟环境恐怖主义阴谋的细节中，随后在不同的环境中对他们进行采访。在研究 1 中，参与者在设计为激活开放性的房间或典型封闭、简陋的拘留审讯室中接受采访。在研究 2 中，我们操纵了两个房间的建筑和内部特征。我们挑战了小房间最适合调查性采访的现状，研究结果提供了令人信服的证据，表明采访室的宽敞程度会影响一个人对信息“开放”或“封闭”的倾向。（PsycINFO 数据库记录）
