Wang Xiaomei, Zheng Quanquan, Wang Jia, Gu Yangli, Li Jiongying
School of Media Studies and Humanities, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, China.
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jul 10;11:1397. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01397. eCollection 2020.
This study explored the effects of regulatory focus and emotions on information preferences, specifically information selection preferences (experiment 1) and implicit information preferences (experiment 2). Our findings revealed that, in the promotion-focused condition, individuals preferred hedonic information (vs. functional information) when they were happy (vs. sad). However, emotions' effects on information preferences were attenuated in the prevention-focused condition. In experiment 3, we tested whether regulatory focus and salient emotions influenced information preferences. The results suggested that regulatory focus and salient emotions had no significant interactive effect on information selection preferences, but had a significant interactive effect on implicit preferences. These results further our understanding of the psychological dynamic mechanism involved in information preferences, which augments the affect-as-information theory.
本研究探讨了调节焦点和情绪对信息偏好的影响，具体而言是信息选择偏好（实验1）和内隐信息偏好（实验2）。我们的研究结果表明，在促进型焦点条件下，个体在感到高兴（而非悲伤）时更偏好享乐信息（而非功能信息）。然而，在预防型焦点条件下，情绪对信息偏好的影响减弱。在实验3中，我们测试了调节焦点和显著情绪是否会影响信息偏好。结果表明，调节焦点和显著情绪对信息选择偏好没有显著的交互作用，但对内隐偏好有显著的交互作用。这些结果进一步加深了我们对信息偏好所涉及的心理动态机制的理解，这丰富了情感即信息理论。
