Department of Psychology, Aix-Marseille University.
Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Louvain.
Emotion. 2023 Oct;23(7):2100-2104. doi: 10.1037/emo0001225. Epub 2023 Mar 9.
Given that awe experiences promote collective identity and decrease self-importance, we reasoned that they should lead individuals to be more prone to cherish social conformity value and to adopt conformity behaviors. In two online experiments ( = 593), compared to neutral and amusement emotional states, awe was found to drive individuals to value the respect of social norms in a greater extent (Experiment 1), and to lead individuals to conform to the majority opinion on an evaluative judgment task (Experiment 2). The present research provides the first empirical evidence of awe as leading to conformity and, although more research is needed, it offers important theoretical implications about the social function of awe as well as, more generally, the importance of emotions in social influence situations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
鉴于敬畏体验能促进集体认同和减少自我重要性，我们推断，它们应该使个体更容易珍惜社会从众价值观，并采取从众行为。在两项在线实验中（n=593），与中性和娱乐情绪状态相比，敬畏被发现会促使个体更加重视社会规范的尊重（实验 1），并导致个体在评价判断任务上从众于多数意见（实验 2）。本研究提供了敬畏导致从众的第一个实证证据，尽管还需要更多的研究，但它为敬畏的社会功能以及更普遍地为情绪在社会影响情境中的重要性提供了重要的理论意义。
