Moliner Pascal, Piermattéo Anthony
Epsylon-LAPECS EA4556, Universitéde Montpellier Paul Valéry, F-34000 Montpellier, FR.
PSyCOS -ETHICS EA7446, UniversitéCatholique de Lille, F-59000 Lille, FR.
Int Rev Soc Psychol. 2025 Aug 14;38:13. doi: 10.5334/irsp.919. eCollection 2025.
Social representations (SRs) emerge from interactions among members of a group. These interactions enable individuals to share beliefs, build consensus, and maintain shared understandings. While interpersonal communication may initially be driven by the unfamiliarity of SR objects, it can also be motivated by the need for group members to cognitively process these objects when they are perceived as threatening or problematic. Thus, emotions elicited by an object in the social environment may prompt interpersonal communication. Two studies were conducted to test this hypothesis using online questionnaires. The first study ( = 294) revealed a correlation between the emotional tone of individuals' content regarding the SR of AIDS and the number of people with whom they discussed the topic. The second study, focusing on the SR of war ( = 246), confirmed these results. It also showed that social sharing related to "war" as an SR object is mediated by epistemic motivation. These findings are interpreted from a dual perspective: SR theory and the social sharing of emotions paradigm. They suggest that when a SR object evokes emotions, those emotions, in turn, drive the motivation to engage in social sharing.
社会表征（SRs）源自群体成员之间的互动。这些互动使个体能够分享信念、达成共识并维持共同理解。虽然人际沟通最初可能由社会表征对象的陌生性驱动，但当群体成员认为这些对象具有威胁性或存在问题时，对其进行认知加工的需求也可能激发人际沟通。因此，社会环境中某个对象引发的情绪可能会促使人际沟通。我们进行了两项研究，通过在线问卷来检验这一假设。第一项研究（N = 294）揭示了个体关于艾滋病社会表征的内容的情感基调与他们讨论该话题的人数之间的相关性。第二项研究聚焦于战争的社会表征（N = 246），证实了这些结果。该研究还表明，作为社会表征对象的“战争”相关的社会分享是由认知动机介导的。这些发现从双重角度进行了解释：社会表征理论和情绪的社会分享范式。它们表明，当一个社会表征对象引发情绪时，这些情绪反过来会驱动社会分享的动机。
