University of Poitiers, CNRS, Poitiers, France.
Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage (CeRCA)-UMR CNRS 7295, MSHS, 5 Rue Théodore Lefebvre, TSA 21103, 86073, Poitiers Cedex 9, France.
Psychol Res. 2020 Feb;84(1):51-61. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-0981-z. Epub 2018 Jan 16.
Prior research on romantic relationships suggests that being in love involves a blurring of self-other cognitive boundaries. However, this research has focused so far on conceptual self-representation, related to the individual's traits or interests. The present study tested the hypothesis that passionate love involves a reduced discrimination between the self and the romantic partner at a bodily level, as indexed by an increased Joint Simon effect (JSE), and we further examined whether this self-other discrimination correlated with the passion felt for the partner. As predicted, we found an increased JSE when participants performed the Joint Simon Task with their romantic partner compared with a friend of the opposite sex. Providing support for the self-expansion model of love (Aron and Aron in Pers Relatsh 3(1):45-58, 1996), this result indicates that romantic relationships blur the boundaries between the self and the romantic partner at a bodily level. Furthermore, the strength of romantic feelings was positively correlated with the magnitude of the JSE when sharing the task with the romantic partner.
先前有关浪漫关系的研究表明，恋爱涉及自我与他人认知边界的模糊。然而，到目前为止，这项研究主要集中在概念上的自我表现，与个体的特质或兴趣有关。本研究检验了这样一个假设，即激情之爱涉及到自我和浪漫伴侣在身体层面上的辨别力降低，这可以通过增加联合西蒙效应（JSE）来衡量，我们还进一步研究了这种自我与他人的辨别力是否与对伴侣的热情有关。正如预测的那样，当参与者与他们的浪漫伴侣而不是异性朋友一起执行联合西蒙任务时，我们发现 JSE 增加了。这一结果为爱的自我扩展模型（Aron 和 Aron 在 Pers Relatsh 3(1):45-58, 1996）提供了支持，表明浪漫关系在身体层面上模糊了自我和浪漫伴侣之间的界限。此外，当与浪漫伴侣分享任务时，浪漫感的强度与 JSE 的大小呈正相关。
