Stavrova Olga, Meckel Andrea
Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany.
Motiv Emot. 2017;41(4):492-509. doi: 10.1007/s11031-017-9619-5. Epub 2017 May 18.
This research examines the role of trait empathy in emotional contagion through non-social targets-art objects. Studies 1a and 1b showed that high- (compared to low-) empathy individuals are more likely to infer an artist's emotions based on the emotional valence of the artwork and, as a result, are more likely to experience the respective emotions themselves. Studies 2a and 2b experimentally manipulated artists' emotions via revealing details about their personal life. Study 3 experimentally induced positive vs. negative emotions in individuals who then wrote literary texts. These texts were shown to another sample of participants. High- (compared to low-) empathy participants were more like to accurately identify and take on the emotions ostensibly (Studies 2a and 2b) or actually (Study 3) experienced by the "artists". High-empathy individuals' enhanced sensitivity to others' emotions is not restricted to social targets, such as faces, but extends to products of the human mind, such as objects of art.
本研究通过非社会目标——艺术品，考察了特质共情在情绪感染中的作用。研究1a和1b表明，高共情（与低共情相比）个体更有可能根据艺术品的情感效价推断艺术家的情绪，因此，他们自己更有可能体验到相应的情绪。研究2a和2b通过揭示艺术家的个人生活细节，对艺术家的情绪进行了实验性操纵。研究3对个体进行实验诱导，使其产生积极或消极情绪，然后让他们撰写文学文本。这些文本被展示给另一组参与者。高共情（与低共情相比）参与者更有可能准确识别并呈现出“艺术家”表面上（研究2a和2b）或实际（研究3）体验到的情绪。高共情个体对他人情绪增强的敏感性不仅限于社会目标，如面部，还延伸到人类思维的产物，如艺术品。
