Von Culin Katherine R, Hirsch Jennifer L, Clark Margaret S
a Yale University , New Haven , CT , USA.
Cogn Emot. 2018 May;32(3):641-650. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2017.1331906. Epub 2017 Jun 1.
Two studies document that people are more willing to express emotions that reveal vulnerabilities to partners when they perceive those partners to be more communally responsive to them. In Study 1, participants rated the communal strength they thought various partners felt toward them and their own willingness to express happiness, sadness and anxiety to each partner. Individuals who generally perceive high communal strength from their partners were also generally most willing to express emotion to partners. Independently, participants were more willing to express emotion to particular partners whom they perceived felt more communal strength toward them. In Study 2, members of romantic couples independently reported their own felt communal strength toward one another, perceptions of their partners' felt communal strength toward them, and willingness to express emotions (happiness, sadness, anxiety, disgust, anger, hurt and guilt) to each other. The communal strength partners reported feeling toward the participants predicted the participants' willingness to express emotion to those partners. This link was mediated by participants' perceptions of the partner's communal strength toward them which, itself, was a joint function of accurate perceptions of the communal strength partners had reported feeling toward them and projections of their own felt communal strength for their partners onto those partners.
两项研究表明，当人们认为伴侣对他们更具社会响应性时，他们更愿意向伴侣表达那些揭示自身脆弱性的情感。在研究1中，参与者对他们认为不同伴侣对自己的社会联结强度以及自己向每个伴侣表达快乐、悲伤和焦虑的意愿进行了评分。那些总体上认为伴侣具有较高社会联结强度的人通常也最愿意向伴侣表达情感。此外，参与者更愿意向他们认为对自己具有更强社会联结强度的特定伴侣表达情感。在研究2中，浪漫情侣的成员分别报告了他们彼此之间的社会联结强度感受、对伴侣对自己的社会联结强度感受的认知，以及向对方表达情感（快乐、悲伤、焦虑、厌恶、愤怒、伤害和内疚）的意愿。伴侣报告的对参与者的社会联结强度预测了参与者向这些伴侣表达情感的意愿。这种联系是由参与者对伴侣对自己的社会联结强度的认知所介导的，而这种认知本身是对伴侣报告的对自己的社会联结强度的准确认知以及他们将自己对伴侣的社会联结强度感受投射到这些伴侣身上的共同作用。
