Emotional Salience, Emotional Awareness, Peculiar Beliefs, and Magical Thinking
Emotional Salience, Emotional Awareness, Peculiar Beliefs, and Magical Thinking
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DOI：
10.1037/a0015395
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Baker, John P.
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作者：
Berenbaum, Howard;Boden, M. Tyler;Baker, John P.
两项针对大学生的研究（n = 271和185）测试了特殊信仰和神奇思维是否与(a)个体可能具有特殊信仰或神奇思维的刺激的情感显著性，(b)对情感的关注，以及(c)情感的清晰性有关。研究一调查了人们对棒球队被诅咒的看法。研究2使用P. Rozin和C. Nemeroff（2002）开发的程序测量神奇思维。在这两项研究中，特殊的信念和神奇的思维与显著性X注意力X清晰度的相互作用有关。在那些信仰魔法思维的对象在情感上高度突出、对情感高度关注的个体中，更高水平的情感清晰度与增加的特殊信仰魔法思维有关。相比之下，在那些信仰-魔法思维的对象在情感上并不突出，并且对情感高度关注的个体中，更高水平的情感清晰度与减少的特殊信仰-魔法思维有关。
Two studies with college student participants (Ns = 271 and 185) tested whether peculiar beliefs and magical thinking were associated with (a) the emotional salience of the stimuli about which individuals may have peculiar beliefs or magical thinking, (b) attention to emotion, and (c) clarity of emotion. Study I examined belief that a baseball team was cursed. Study 2 measured magical thinking using a procedure developed by P. Rozin and C. Nemeroff (2002). In both studies, peculiar beliefs and magical thinking were associated with Salience X Attention X Clarity interactions. Among individuals for whom the objects of the belief-magical thinking were highly emotionally salient and who had high levels of attention to emotion, higher levels of emotional clarity were associated with increased peculiar beliefs-magical thinking. In contrast, among individuals for whom the objects of the belief-magical thinking were not emotionally salient and who had high levels of attention to emotion, higher levels of emotional clarity were associated with diminished peculiar beliefs-magical thinking.