Institute of Psychology.
Emotion. 2021 Dec;21(8):1744-1759. doi: 10.1037/emo0000991. Epub 2021 Dec 20.
According to the semantic primacy hypothesis of emotion generation, stimuli must be semantically categorized to evoke emotions. This hypothesis was tested in two chronometric studies, using the rotating spot method of timing subjective events. Participants saw pleasant and unpleasant pictures while a spot rotated around the edge of the picture. In different blocks of trials, they indicated when they experienced the pleasant or unpleasant feeling evoked by the pictures, or recognized the depicted objects, by reporting the position of the spot at the time when these mental events occurred. In both experiments, the latency of object recognition was found to be shorter than the latency of affect for nearly all participants and pictures, and the two latencies were positively correlated across participants. Experiment 2 replicated these findings and additionally showed that an experimental manipulation that delayed object recognition, blurring the pictures, also delayed the onset of affect. A mediation analysis suggested that this effect was at least partly mediated by the delayed recognition of the objects. The findings support the semantic primacy hypothesis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
根据情绪产生的语义优势假说，刺激物必须进行语义分类才能引发情绪。本假说通过使用计时主观事件的旋转点方法，在两项计时研究中得到了检验。参与者在看到愉快和不愉快的图片时，一个点会在图片边缘旋转。在不同的试验块中，他们通过报告点在这些心理事件发生时的位置，来表明他们何时体验到图片所引起的愉快或不愉快的感觉，或者识别出所描绘的物体。在两项实验中，对于几乎所有的参与者和图片来说，对物体的识别潜伏期都比对情感的潜伏期短，并且两个潜伏期在参与者之间呈正相关。实验 2 复制了这些发现，并进一步表明，一种延迟物体识别的实验操作，即模糊图片，也会延迟情感的出现。中介分析表明，这种影响至少部分是由物体识别的延迟引起的。这些发现支持了语义优势假说。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
