Context reconsidered: Complex signal ensembles, relational meaning, and population thinking in psychological science.
Context reconsidered: Complex signal ensembles, relational meaning, and population thinking in psychological science.
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DOI：
10.1037/amp0001054
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发表时间：
2022-11
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
Barrett, Lisa Feldman
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作者：
Barrett, Lisa Feldman
每个实验都包含许多可能影响感兴趣现象的因素。本文从情感表达研究的透镜来思考“语境”在心理科学中的地位和研究。我们开始通过更新三个关于语境在情感表达中的作用的方法论辩论，重新考虑潜伏在主流方法论传统中的几个基本假设：即，某些表达运动具有生物学准备的内在情感意义，因为它们来自独立于但可以与语境影响相互作用的单一的普遍过程。本文的第二部分认为，等待的科学机会，如果我们抛开这种传统的理解“上下文”作为一个主持人的信号与内在的心理意义，而是考虑心理事件出现在生态系统的信号合奏，这样的心理意义的任何个人信号是完全相关的可能性。这种根本性的转变不仅对情感科学，而且对更广泛的心理科学都具有根本性的影响。它提供了提高心理科学的有效性和可信度的机会，这超出了仅仅通过改进方法论的严谨性所能实现的。
Every experiment contains a multitude of factors that might influence the phenomenon of interest. This paper considers the status and study of “context” in psychological science through the lens of research on emotional expressions. We begin by updating three well-trod methodological debates on the role of context in emotional expressions to reconsider several fundamental assumptions lurking within the dominant methodological tradition: namely, that certain expressive movements have biologically prepared, inherent emotional meanings because they issue from singular, universal processes which are independent of but can interact with contextual influences. The second part of this paper considers the scientific opportunities that await if we set aside this traditional understanding of “context” as a moderator of signals with inherent psychological meaning and instead consider the possibility that psychological events emerge in ecosystems of signal ensembles, such that the psychological meaning of any individual signal is entirely relational. Such a fundamental shift has radical implications not only for the science of emotion, but for psychological science more generally. It offers opportunities to improve the validity and trustworthiness of psychological science beyond what can be achieved with improvements to methodological rigor alone.