Incidental mood state before dissonance induction affects attitude change
Incidental mood state before dissonance induction affects attitude change
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0180531
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发表时间：
2017-07-14
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Gil, Sandrine
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作者：
Martinie, Marie-Amelie;Almecija, Yves;Gil, Sandrine
目前研究的是在失调状态诱导后产生附带情感状态时，附带情感对受控过程所带来的态度变化的影响方式。因此，我们研究了当偶然情绪发生在失调状态诱导之前时态度的变化。我们期望消极情绪诱发系统加工，积极情绪诱发启发式加工。考虑到系统加工和态度改变都是认知成本高的，我们预期在消极情绪下经历失调状态的参与者没有足够的资源来分配态度改变。在我们的实验中，在情绪诱导（消极、中性或积极）之后，参与者被分为低失调组和高失调组。然后他们写了一篇逆态度文章。分析他们对作文题目的态度，发现在消极附带情绪条件下，态度没有发生变化。此外，写作效率——认知资源分配的一个指标——根据附带情绪的类型而变化，并且只预测了高不和谐组的态度变化。结果表明，认知失调诱发前的附带情绪会影响信息加工的方式，进而影响态度改变的程度。
The way that incidental affect impacts attitude change brought about by controlled processes has so far been examined when the incidental affective state is generated after dissonance state induction. We therefore investigated attitude change when the incidental mood occurs prior to dissonance state induction. We expected a negative mood to induce systematic processing, and a positive mood to induce heuristic processing. Given that both systematic processing and attitude change are cognitively costly, we expected participants who experienced the dissonance state in a negative mood to have insufficient resources to allocate to attitude change. In our experiment, after mood induction (negative, neutral or positive), participants were divided into low-dissonance and high-dissonance groups. They then wrote a counterattitudinal essay. Analysis of their attitudes towards the essay topic indicated that attitude change did not occur in the negative incidental mood condition. Moreover, written productivity-one indicator of cognitive resource allocation-varied according to the type of incidental mood, and only predicted attitude change in the high-dissonance group. Our results suggest that incidental mood before dissonance induction influences the style of information processing and, by so doing, affects the extent of attitude change.