Priming and Authorship Ascription: When Nonconscious Goals Turn Into Conscious Experiences of Self-Agency
Priming and Authorship Ascription: When Nonconscious Goals Turn Into Conscious Experiences of Self-Agency
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DOI：
10.1037/a0015000
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Marien, Hans
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作者：
Aarts, Henk;Custers, Ruud;Marien, Hans
自我代理的有意识体验(即，一个人导致自己的行为及其结果的感觉)是人类自我认知的基础。四个实验探索了有经验的自我代理是如何从无意识激活的结果表征和随后的结果产生之间产生匹配的，并具体探索了产生结果的内隐动机如何影响这一过程。参与者停止了电脑屏幕上快速呈现的一系列颜色。随后，他们被呈现给他们的颜色可能是他们停止序列的颜色，也可能是计算机随机选择的颜色。每次试验后的机构评级显示，在结果产生之前启动结果(一种特定的颜色)增强了经验丰富的自我能动性。重要的是，提前较长时间启动结果也增强了自我能动性，但前提是结果与积极的情感有关，因此作为一个无意识的目标运作，随着时间的推移保持结果表征的活跃。因此，这些研究表明，潜藏在无意识目标追求背后的机制如何促进自我代理的体验，从而整合了迄今为止过着不同生活的两条研究路线。
The conscious experience of self-agency (i.e., the feeling that one causes one's own actions and their outcomes) is fundamental to human self-perception. Four experiments explored how experienced self-agency arises from a match between nonconsciously activated outcome representations and the subsequent production of the outcome and explored specifically how implicit motivation to produce the outcome may impinge on this process. Participants stopped a rapidly presented sequence of colors on a computer screen. Subsequently, they were presented with what could be the color on which they had stopped the sequence or a color that was randomly chosen by the computer. Agency ratings after each trial revealed that priming outcomes (a specific color) just before the outcome was produced enhanced experienced self-agency. Importantly, priming outcomes relatively far in advance also augmented self-agency, but only if the outcome was attached to positive affect and thus operating as a nonconscious goal maintaining the outcome representation active over time. As such, these studies show how the mechanisms underlying nonconscious goal pursuit promote experiences of self-agency, thus integrating 2 lines of research that so far have led separate lives.