Yue Caizhen, Long Yihong, Ni Chaomei, Wu Huating, Zhao Dexuan
College of National Culture and Cognitive Science, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang, China.
Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Mar 9;14:1060068. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1060068. eCollection 2023.
As a unique part of human thinking, people can project themselves into the past or the future for mental time travel. This study attempts to expand the temporal self into the domain of the collective self.
We used an adapted temporal collective self-reference paradigm to probe into the positivity bias of temporal collective self in this study. In Experiment 1, the first-person perspective was adopted for the participants to conduct the temporal collective self-reference processing, and the third-person perspective was adopted for the temporal collective self-reference processing in Experiment 2.
The findings indicated that no matter from the first-person perspective or the third-person perspective, people show positivity bias in the trait adjectives judgment, response times and recognition rates during the temporal collective self-processing.
This study explores mental time travel on the level of collective self, and contributes to deepening the understanding of temporal collective self.
作为人类思维的独特组成部分,人们能够将自己投射到过去或未来进行心理时间旅行。本研究试图将时间自我扩展到集体自我领域。
在本研究中,我们使用了一种改编的时间集体自我参照范式来探究时间集体自我的积极偏向。实验1采用第一人称视角让参与者进行时间集体自我参照加工,实验2采用第三人称视角进行时间集体自我参照加工。
研究结果表明,无论从第一人称视角还是第三人称视角,人们在时间集体自我加工过程中的特质形容词判断、反应时间和识别率上均表现出积极偏向。
本研究在集体自我层面探索心理时间旅行,有助于深化对时间集体自我的理解。