Individual and Cultural Differences in Predispositions to Feel Positive and Negative Aspects of Awe
Individual and Cultural Differences in Predispositions to Feel Positive and Negative Aspects of Awe
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DOI：
10.1177/0022022120959821
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发表时间：
2020-09-27
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3
通讯作者：
Uchida, Yukiko
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作者：
Nakayama, Masataka;Nozaki, Yuki;Uchida, Yukiko
关于敬畏的心理学研究主要集中在其积极方面，包括敬畏的体验状态和基于个人特质的敬畏体验倾向。然而，人们对敬畏的负价维度知之甚少，例如个人将敬畏视为威胁的倾向。为了更广泛地理解敬畏，本研究调查了个人对敬畏的消极方面（即威胁）和敬畏的积极方面（例如美丽）的倾向，并研究了这两种倾向如何相互关联。此外，这项研究使用日本和美国的样本来探讨不同文化中感到敬畏的倾向是否存在差异。两项研究（总计 N = 1245）表明，在日本和美国样本中，感受到敬畏的积极和消极方面的倾向是可分离的。然而，存在文化差异：北美人比日本人更容易感受到积极的方面，日本人的积极和消极的感觉呈正相关，但北美人则不然。这有助于更好地理解敬畏的效价如何受到文化介导的情感模式的影响。
Psychological research on awe has largely focused on its positive dimensions, both in terms of the experiential state of awe and individual trait-based predispositions to awe experience. Little is known, however, about awe's negative-valence dimensions, such as individual tendencies to experience awe as threatening. To gain a broader understanding of awe, the current study investigates individual predispositions to feel negative aspects of awe (i.e., threat) and positive aspects of awe (e.g., beauty) and examines how these two tendencies are interrelated. Additionally, this study uses both Japanese and US samples to explore whether predispositions to feel awe vary across cultures. Two studies (totalN = 1245) suggests that in both Japanese and US samples, predispositions to feel positive and negative aspects of awe were separable. However, there were cultural differences: North Americans were more predisposed to feel positive aspects than Japanese, and the predispositions to feel positive and negative aspects were positively correlated for Japanese, but not North Americans. This contributes to a better understanding of how the valence of awe may be influenced by culturally-mediated patterns of affect.