Liu Yiguang, Yin Jun, Liang Junying
Department of Linguistics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jul 10;10:1580. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01580. eCollection 2019.
The intuition of clarity-valence association seems to be pervasive in daily life, however, whether there exists a potential association between clarity (i.e., operationalized as visual resolution) and affect in human cognition remains unknown. The present study conducted five experiments, and demonstrated the clarity-valence congruency effect, that is, the evaluations showed performance advantage in the congruent conditions (clear-positive, blurry-negative). Experiments 1 through 3 demonstrated the influence of the perception of clarity on the conceptualization of affective valence, while Experiments 4 and 5 verified the absence of the influence of conceptualization on perception, thus the unidirectionality of clarity-valence association in cognition is confirmed. The findings extend the affective perceptual-conceptual associations into the dimension of clarity, thus providing support for the ideas of embodied cognition as well as implications for our preference for clarity and aversion to blur.
清晰-效价关联的直觉在日常生活中似乎很普遍，然而，在人类认知中，清晰度（即通过视觉分辨率来操作化）与情感之间是否存在潜在关联仍然未知。本研究进行了五项实验，并证明了清晰-效价一致性效应，也就是说，在一致条件下（清晰-积极、模糊-消极）的评估显示出表现优势。实验1至3证明了清晰度感知对情感效价概念化的影响，而实验4和5则验证了概念化对感知没有影响，从而证实了认知中清晰-效价关联的单向性。这些发现将情感感知-概念关联扩展到了清晰度维度，从而为具身认知的观点提供了支持，并对我们对清晰的偏好和对模糊的厌恶具有启示意义。
