Department of Psychology, Reykjavik University, 102 Reykjavik, Iceland.
Department of Business, Reykjavik University, 102 Reykjavik, Iceland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Nov 20;18(22):12185. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182212185.
The aim of the present study was to examine how negative emotion and sex affect self-generated errors as in fabrication set-up and later false recognition of those errors. In total, 120 university students volunteered to take part in the study. Participants were assigned at random into two equal sized groups (N = 60) depending on the type of event they received (negative emotional or neutral). We expected that fabrication and false recognition would be enhanced for the emotional event compared to the neutral one. We further hypothesized that both the willingness to fabricate and later false recognition would be enhanced for women compared with men. The results partly confirmed the hypotheses. The results showed that emotional valence (negative) affects both the willingness to fabricate about events that never took place, and the recognition of the fabrication as true at a later point. Women and men were equally likely to fabricate but women were more likely to recognize their fabrication, particularly for the emotional event. The results are discussed in the context of prior work.
本研究旨在探讨消极情绪和性别如何影响自我产生的错误，例如在捏造设定和后来对这些错误的错误识别中。共有 120 名大学生自愿参加了这项研究。根据他们所接受的事件类型（消极情绪或中性），参与者被随机分为两组（每组 60 人）。我们预计与中性事件相比，情绪事件会增强捏造和错误识别。我们进一步假设，与男性相比，女性捏造的意愿和后来的错误识别都会增强。结果部分证实了这些假设。结果表明，情绪效价（消极）会影响对从未发生过的事件的捏造意愿，以及稍后对捏造的识别为真实的意愿。女性和男性捏造的可能性相同，但女性更有可能识别自己的捏造，特别是对于情绪事件。结果在先前工作的背景下进行了讨论。
