Malik R, Paraherakis A, Joseph S, Ladd H
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Percept Mot Skills. 1996 Dec;83(3 Pt 2):1235-42. doi: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.3f.1235.
The present experiment investigated the effects of subliminal psychodynamic stimuli on anxiety as measured by heart rate. Following an anxiety-inducing task, male and female subjects were tachistoscopically shown, at their subjective thresholds, one of five subliminal stimuli, MOMMY AND I ARE ONE, DADDY AND I ARE ONE (symbiotic messages). MOMMY HAS LEFT ME (abandonment message), I AM HAPPY AND CALM (positively toned but nonsymbiotic phrase), or MYMMO NAD I REA ENO (control stimulus). It was hypothesized that men would exhibit a greater decrease in heart rate after exposure to the MOMMY stimulus than the control message. No definitive predictions were made for women. The abandonment phrase was expected to increase heart rate. A positively toned message was included to assess whether its effects would be comparable to those hypothesized for the MOMMY message. The results yielded no significant effects for stimulus or gender and so provided no support for the hypotheses.
本实验研究了阈下心理动力刺激对通过心率测量的焦虑的影响。在一项诱发焦虑的任务之后，通过速示器向男性和女性受试者以他们的主观阈限呈现五种阈下刺激之一：“我和妈妈是一体”“我和爸爸是一体”（共生信息）、“妈妈离开了我”（抛弃信息）、“我快乐且平静”（积极但非共生的短语）或“MYMMO NAD I REA ENO”（控制刺激）。假设男性在接触“妈妈”刺激后心率下降幅度会比接触控制信息后更大。对女性未做出明确预测。预计抛弃短语会使心率增加。纳入了一个积极的信息以评估其效果是否与假设的“妈妈”信息的效果相当。结果显示刺激或性别方面均无显著影响，因此没有为这些假设提供支持。
