Department of Psychology, Appalachian State University.
Psychol Sci. 2024 Sep;35(9):1025-1034. doi: 10.1177/09567976241257255. Epub 2024 Aug 7.
People share information for many reasons. For example, Berger (2011, = 40) found that undergraduate participants manipulated to have higher physiological arousal were more likely to share a news article with others via email than people who had low arousal. Berger's research is widely cited as evidence of the causal role of arousal in sharing information and has been used to explain why information that induces high-arousal emotions is shared more than information that induces low-arousal emotions. We conducted two replications ( = 111, = 160) of Berger's study, using the same arousal manipulation but updating the sharing measure to reflect the rise of information sharing through social media. Both studies failed to find an impact of incidental physiological arousal on undergraduate participants' willingness to share news articles on social media. Our studies cast doubt on the idea that incidental physiological arousal-in the absence of other factors-impacts people's decisions to share information on social networking sites.
人们出于多种原因分享信息。例如， Berger（2011 年，= 40）发现，被操纵产生更高生理唤醒的本科生更有可能通过电子邮件与他人分享新闻文章，而那些生理唤醒较低的人则不然。Berger 的研究被广泛引用为唤醒在分享信息中的因果作用的证据，并被用来解释为什么引起高唤醒情绪的信息比引起低唤醒情绪的信息被分享得更多。我们对 Berger 的研究进行了两次复制（= 111，= 160），使用相同的唤醒操作，但更新了分享测量方法，以反映通过社交媒体进行信息分享的兴起。这两项研究都没有发现偶然的生理唤醒对本科生在社交媒体上分享新闻文章的意愿有影响。我们的研究对这样一种观点提出了质疑，即偶然的生理唤醒——在没有其他因素的情况下——会影响人们在社交网站上分享信息的决定。
