On the reluctance to communicate bad news (the mum effect): A role play extension
On the reluctance to communicate bad news (the mum effect): A role play extension
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关于不愿传达坏消息（妈妈效应）：角色扮演的延伸
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1972.tb00651.x
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发表时间：
1972
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
T. Batchelor
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作者：
A. Tesser;S. Rosen;T. Batchelor
这篇文章介绍了不愿传达坏消息的信息。最近有证据表明，人们不愿意传播对接收者不利的消息。研究人员将这种表现出的不情愿称为 MUM 效应。本研究的目的是复制和扩展最初的研究结果。人们认为，确定传播责任的分配、接收者的情绪以及接收者和/或传播者的性别是否与新闻方向相互作用，以决定新闻完全、部分或根本不传播的程度，以及感知信息重要性、沟通愿望和感知信息紧迫性作为传播媒介的可能作用，也被认为是重要的。 认为值得调查。此外，由于本研究中使用的角色扮演程序与原始实验中使用的程序非常一致，因此存在验证此类方法的绝佳机会。在最初的研究中，没有明确分配将消息传输给接收者的责任。这种情况有利于让受试者感到自己对传递信息负有部分责任，并让他认为实验助理也负有部分责任。
The article presents information on the reluctance to communicate bad news. Evidence that people are reluctant to communicate news that is bad for the recipient has recently been presented. This demonstrated reluctance was termed by the investigators the MUM effect. The purpose of the present study was to replicate as well as extend the original findings It was considered important to determine whether assignment of responsibility for communicating, the recipient's mood, and the sex of the recipient and/or the communicator interact with news direction in determining the extent to which the news is transmitted fully, partially, or not at all, the possible roles of perceived message importance, desire to communicate and perceived urgency of the message, as mediators bearing on communication, were also considered deserving of investigation. Further, since the role play procedure utilized in this study closely conformed to the procedure utilized in the original experiment, a prime opportunity for validating this type of methodology existed. In the original study, there was no explicit assignment of responsibility for transmitting the message to the recipient. The situation was conducive to making the subject feel partly responsible for transmitting the message and for him to assume that the experimental assistant too was partly responsible.