情绪的温度。
The temperature of emotions.
机构信息
Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Department of Marketing, Centre for Multisensory Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway.
出版信息
PLoS One. 2021 Jun 3;16(6):e0252408. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252408. eCollection 2021.
Emotions and temperature are closely related through embodied processes, and people seem to associate temperature concepts with emotions. While this relationship is often evidenced by everyday language (e.g., cold and warm feelings), what remains missing to date is a systematic study that holistically analyzes how and why people associate specific temperatures with emotions. The present research aimed to investigate the associations between temperature concepts and emotion adjectives on both explicit and implicit levels. In Experiment 1, we evaluated explicit associations between twelve pairs of emotion adjectives derived from the circumplex model of affect, and five different temperature concepts ranging from 0°C to 40°C, based on responses from 403 native speakers of four different languages (English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese). The results of Experiment 1 revealed that, across languages, the temperatures were associated with different regions of the circumplex model. The 0°C and 10°C were associated with negative-valanced, low-arousal emotions, while 20°C was associated with positive-valanced, low-to-medium-arousal emotions. Moreover, 30°C was associated with positive-valanced, high-arousal emotions; and 40°C was associated with high-arousal and either positive- or negative-valanced emotions. In Experiment 2 (N = 102), we explored whether these temperature-emotion associations were also present at the implicit level, by conducting Implicit Association Tests (IATs) with temperature words (cold and hot) and opposing pairs of emotional adjectives for each dimension of valence (Unhappy/Dissatisfied vs. Happy/Satisfied) and arousal (Passive/Quiet vs. Active/Alert) on native English speakers. The results of Experiment 2 revealed that participants held implicit associations between the word hot and positive-valanced and high-arousal emotions. Additionally, the word cold was associated with negative-valanced and low-arousal emotions. These findings provide evidence for the existence of temperature-emotion associations at both explicit and implicit levels across languages.
情绪和温度通过具身过程密切相关,人们似乎将温度概念与情绪联系起来。虽然这种关系通常在日常语言中得到证实(例如,冷和温暖的感觉),但迄今为止,仍缺乏一项系统的研究来全面分析人们为什么会将特定的温度与情绪联系起来。本研究旨在从显性和隐性两个层面研究温度概念与情绪形容词之间的联系。在实验 1 中,我们基于来自四种不同语言(英语、西班牙语、日语和汉语)的 403 名母语者的反应,评估了十二对源于情感双因素模型的情绪形容词与五个不同温度概念(0°C 至 40°C)之间的显性联系。实验 1 的结果表明,在不同语言中,温度与情感双因素模型的不同区域相关联。0°C 和 10°C 与负效价、低唤醒的情绪相关联,而 20°C 与正效价、低至高唤醒的情绪相关联。此外,30°C 与正效价、高唤醒的情绪相关联;而 40°C 与高唤醒和正或负效价的情绪相关联。在实验 2(N=102)中,我们通过对英语母语者进行内隐联想测验(IAT),用温度词(冷和热)和每个效价(不快乐/不满意与快乐/满意)和唤醒(被动/安静与主动/警觉)维度的对立情绪形容词对,探索了这些温度-情绪关联是否也存在于隐性水平。实验 2 的结果表明,参与者在隐性水平上存在单词“热”与正效价和高唤醒情绪之间的关联。此外,单词“冷”与负效价和低唤醒情绪相关联。这些发现为语言之间显性和隐性层面的温度-情绪关联提供了证据。