School of Governmant, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China.
School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China.
PLoS One. 2019 Oct 4;14(10):e0223489. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223489. eCollection 2019.
Stress has become a widely experienced state all around the world, and previous literature has found that stress impacts individuals' cognition, emotion, coping behaviors and psychological well-being in general. Relatively little is known about how stress influences individuals' perception of stimuli changes, a ubiquitous phenomenon known as scope sensitivity. In the current work, we explore whether individuals with higher levels of chronic stress are sensitive to stimuli changes, such as price and quantity differences. Two empirical studies consistently show that chronically stressed individuals exhibit scope insensitivity, as they rated the expensiveness of two hotel rooms with different prices as being less different and indicated a smaller difference in their willingness-to-buy five CDs versus ten CDs. Possible explanations and theoretical and practical implications in the broader field are discussed.
压力在全球范围内已经成为一种普遍存在的状态，先前的文献发现压力会影响个体的认知、情绪、应对行为和整体心理健康。相对较少的是知道压力如何影响个体对刺激变化的感知，这种普遍存在的现象被称为范围敏感性。在当前的工作中，我们探讨了是否慢性压力较大的个体对刺激变化敏感，如价格和数量差异。两项实证研究一致表明，慢性压力个体表现出范围不敏感，因为他们对价格不同的两间酒店房间的昂贵程度评价较低，并且表示购买五张 CD 和十张 CD 的意愿差异较小。在更广泛的领域中讨论了可能的解释以及理论和实践意义。
