Kronrod Ann, Ackerman Joshua M
Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, The Robert J. Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 1 University Ave., Lowell, MA 01854, United States of America.
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 350 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043, United States of America.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2019 Apr;195:12-21. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.02.005. Epub 2019 Mar 1.
In everyday life, people often engage in behaviors like chin touching, hand clasping, and arm crossing. Such self-touching behaviors have been found to emerge under emotional stress and while performing tasks requiring concentration and focus. In contrast to work examining antecedents of self-touch, the current research experimentally investigates the causal outcomes of self-touch, specifically its influence on evaluative cognitions such as attitudes toward external objects and events. Four studies support the prediction that both instructed and spontaneous self-touch enhance focus on the self, resulting in greater attitude extremity toward evaluated targets. A last study demonstrates that people do not have a fully accurate understanding of the influence of self-touch on consequential outcomes such as self-focus and attitude extremity. Thus, this common behavior may incidentally influence a wide variety of judgments.
在日常生活中，人们经常会做出诸如触摸下巴、双手紧握和交叉双臂等行为。研究发现，这些自我触摸行为会在情绪压力下以及执行需要集中注意力的任务时出现。与探究自我触摸前因的研究不同，当前的研究通过实验来调查自我触摸的因果结果，特别是其对诸如对外界物体和事件的态度等评价性认知的影响。四项研究支持了这样的预测，即无论是指示性的还是自发的自我触摸都会增强对自我的关注，从而导致对被评估目标的态度更加极端。最后一项研究表明，人们对自我触摸对诸如自我关注和态度极端性等相应结果的影响并没有完全准确的理解。因此，这种常见的行为可能会不经意地影响各种各样的判断。
