Laboratory for the Study of Social Perception of Emotions and The Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Emotions, Department of Business Administration, University of Haifa.
Department of Psychology, Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Emotion. 2019 Mar;19(2):200-208. doi: 10.1037/emo0000368. Epub 2018 Mar 29.
How people react emotionally to an event can tell us much about the event itself. However, emotions vary in their situative informativeness, that is, in how much information about the situation they provide. We predicted that when emotions are shown that are low in situative informativeness participants rely more on context information, then when the emotions shown are high in situative informativeness. This hypothesis was tested in 2 studies in which participants were asked to evaluate the quality of a player's performance based on the emotional reactions of spectators to an unknown ball game. Spectators reacted either with awe (high in situative informativeness), or with happiness or neutrality (low in situative informativeness). Participant also received context information. The findings supported the predictions and illustrate how emotions and context interact to inform us about events. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
人们对事件的情绪反应可以告诉我们很多关于事件本身的信息。然而，情绪在情境信息量上存在差异，即它们提供了多少关于情境的信息。我们预测，当表现出低情境信息量的情绪时，参与者会更多地依赖情境信息，而当表现出高情境信息量的情绪时则不会。这一假设在两项研究中得到了检验，在这些研究中，参与者被要求根据观众对一场未知球赛的情绪反应来评估球员的表现质量。观众的反应要么是敬畏（高情境信息量），要么是高兴或中性（低情境信息量）。参与者还收到了情境信息。研究结果支持了这些预测，并说明了情绪和情境如何相互作用来告知我们关于事件的信息。
