Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Cogn Emot. 2022 Jun;36(4):767-772. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2022.2053660. Epub 2022 Mar 16.
According to the Spatial Quantity Association of Response Codes (SQUARC), people hold a mental association between horizontal position and quantity (lower quantities left, higher quantities right). While a large body of research has explored this effect for response speed and judgment accuracy, the affective downstream consequences of the SQUARC remain unexplored. Aiming to address this gap, the present two experiments (pre-registered, total = 521) investigated whether stimulus arrangements that are compatible with the SQUARC for luminance are affectively preferred to stimulus arrangements that are incompatible. SQUARC-compatible square arrangements (dark-left, bright-right) were preferred over SQUARC-incompatible square arrangements (dark-right, bright-left). The preference for SQUARC compatibility was not moderated by the horizontal orientation of the response scale. Our results confirm the direction of the spatial-luminance association and provide initial support that the cognitive processing of SQUARC compatibility is hedonically marked and appears sufficient to impact affective evaluations.
根据反应代码的空间数量关联（SQUARC），人们在水平位置和数量之间存在心理联想（数量较低的在左侧，数量较高的在右侧）。虽然大量研究已经探索了这种对反应速度和判断准确性的影响，但 SQUARC 的情感下游后果仍未得到探索。为了解决这一差距，本研究进行了两项实验（预先注册，共 521 人），以调查对于亮度而言与 SQUARC 兼容的刺激排列是否在情感上优先于与 SQUARC 不兼容的刺激排列。SQUARC 兼容的方形排列（左暗右亮）比 SQUARC 不兼容的方形排列（左亮右暗）更受欢迎。对 SQUARC 兼容性的偏好不受反应尺度的水平方向的调节。我们的结果证实了空间亮度关联的方向，并初步支持 SQUARC 兼容性的认知处理在享乐上是有标记的，并且足以影响情感评估。
