Fiori Marina, Ortony Andrew
Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET), 1020 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
J Intell. 2021 May 4;9(2):24. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence9020024.
In this article, we provide preliminary evidence for the 'hypersensitivity hypothesis', according to which Emotional Intelligence (EI) functions as a magnifier of emotional experience, enhancing the effect of emotion and emotion information on thinking and social perception. Measuring ability EI, and in particular Emotion Understanding, we describe an experiment designed to determine whether, relative to those low in EI, individuals high in EI were more affected by the valence of a scenario describing a target when making an affective social judgment. Employing a sample of individuals from the general population, high EI participants were found to provide more extreme (positive or negative) impressions of the target as a function of the scenario valence: positive information about the target increased high EI participants' positive impressions more than it increased low EI participants' impressions, and negative information increased their negative impressions more. In addition, EI affected the amount of recalled information and this led high EI individuals to intensify their affective ratings of the target. These initial results show that individuals high on EI may be particularly sensitive to emotions and emotion information, and they suggest that this hypersensitivity might account for both the beneficial and detrimental effects of EI documented in the literature. Implications are discussed.
在本文中，我们为“超敏假设”提供了初步证据，根据该假设，情商（EI）起着情绪体验放大器的作用，增强了情绪及情绪信息对思维和社会认知的影响。通过测量能力EI，尤其是情绪理解能力，我们描述了一项实验，旨在确定在进行情感社会判断时，相对于低EI者，高EI者是否更容易受到描述目标情境效价的影响。以普通人群为样本，研究发现高EI参与者会根据情境效价对目标给出更极端（积极或消极）的印象：关于目标的积极信息对高EI参与者积极印象的提升幅度大于对低EI参与者印象的提升幅度，而消极信息对他们消极印象的增加幅度更大。此外，EI影响了回忆信息的数量，这使得高EI个体增强了对目标的情感评分。这些初步结果表明，高EI个体可能对情绪和情绪信息特别敏感，并且表明这种超敏反应可能解释了文献中记载的EI的有益和有害影响。本文还讨论了相关意义。
