Shi Kai, Li Jiansheng
Department of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, 730050, People's Republic of China.
Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China.
Mem Cognit. 2025 Apr;53(3):983-994. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01624-6. Epub 2024 Aug 27.
The present study examined whether a high-level construal mindset promotes categorizing information according to thematic relations. In three experiments, the construal-level priming task was used to initiate a high-level versus low-level construal mindset, and then all participants were asked to complete the triad task, which is a task measuring the preference to classify. The results of Experiments 1 and 2 have shown that regardless of whether it was a set of artificially produced objects (Experiment 1) or a set of natural objects (Experiment 2), the high-level construal mindset group exhibited a higher proportion of thematic responses in the triad task. Experiment 3 transformed the stimulus set of the triad task into a set that consisted of many, larger, published, and controlled/optimized stimuli. The results of the experiment still showed that the high-level construal mindset group exhibited a higher proportion of thematic responses in the triad task. The findings suggest that a high-level construal mindset promotes categorizing information based on thematic relations.
本研究考察了高水平解释思维模式是否会促进根据主题关系对信息进行分类。在三个实验中，使用解释水平启动任务来引发高水平与低水平的解释思维模式，然后要求所有参与者完成三元组任务，这是一项测量分类偏好的任务。实验1和2的结果表明，无论是一组人工制造的物体（实验1）还是一组自然物体（实验2），高水平解释思维模式组在三元组任务中表现出更高比例的主题反应。实验3将三元组任务的刺激集转换为由许多更大、已发表且经过控制/优化的刺激组成的集合。实验结果仍然表明，高水平解释思维模式组在三元组任务中表现出更高比例的主题反应。研究结果表明，高水平解释思维模式会促进基于主题关系对信息进行分类。
