The Education University of Hong Kong.
J Soc Psychol. 2024 May 3;164(3):336-350. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2022.2080038. Epub 2022 Jun 6.
Sharing what we know with others has an important role in facilitating people's social learning and communication across settings. To advance the understanding of when and how people share, the present study examined the role of inspiration, an emotion that contains strong motivational elements, on people's sharing tendencies in three studies. Study 1 showed a positive association between the inspiring level of a given message and its likelihood of being shared. Study 2 replicated the finding with carefully controlling for the effect of positivity of a given message. Study 3 further provided evidence that inspiration shaped how people share. The results showed that participants shared inspiring messages in a more innovative way than when they shared less inspiring messages. The present research has implications for how to promote the sharing process in different settings through the role of inspiration.
与他人分享我们所知道的对于促进人们在不同环境中的社会学习和交流具有重要作用。为了深入了解人们何时以及如何分享，本研究在三项研究中检验了灵感这一情绪（包含强烈的动机元素）对人们分享倾向的作用。研究 1 表明，给定信息的激励水平与其被分享的可能性呈正相关。研究 2 通过仔细控制给定信息的积极性的影响，复制了这一发现。研究 3 进一步提供了证据表明灵感塑造了人们的分享方式。结果表明，与分享激励性较低的信息相比，参与者以更具创新性的方式分享激励性信息。本研究对于如何通过灵感的作用在不同环境中促进分享过程具有启示意义。
