AuBuchon P G, Calhoun K S
Psychosom Med. 1985 Jan-Feb;47(1):35-45. doi: 10.1097/00006842-198501000-00004.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of experimental demand characteristics and social expectancies on the report and experience of presumed menstrual cycle-related moods and symptoms. Participating in the study were 18 healthy women with regular menstrual cycles who were randomly assigned to either a group told that menstrual cycle symptomatology was the focus of the study or a group to which no interest in menstrual cycle symptoms was communicated. Nine males were also included as a control group. Results indicated that women who were informed of the interest in menstrual cycle symptomatology reported significantly more negative psychologic and somatic symptoms at the premenstrual and menstrual phases than did the women and men not so informed. It appears, therefore, that the report of stereotypic menstrual cycle symptomatology is influenced by social expectancy and experimental demand characteristics.
本研究的目的是检验实验需求特征和社会期望对假定的月经周期相关情绪及症状的报告和体验的影响。18名月经周期规律的健康女性参与了该研究，她们被随机分为两组，一组被告知月经周期症状是研究的重点，另一组则未被告知对月经周期症状感兴趣。另外9名男性作为对照组。结果表明，被告知对月经周期症状感兴趣的女性在经前和经期报告的负面心理和躯体症状明显多于未被告知的女性和男性。因此，似乎刻板的月经周期症状报告受到社会期望和实验需求特征的影响。
