The illusion of external agency.
The illusion of external agency.
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外部机构的幻觉。
DOI：
10.1037//0022-3514.79.5.690
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Wilson,TD
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作者：
Gilbert,DT;Brown,RP;Pinel,EC;Wilson,TD
人们通常会低估自己对未来结果产生满足感的能力。当人们体验到这种自我产生的满足感时，他们可能会错误地得出结论，认为这是由一个有影响力的、有洞察力的、仁慈的外部因素造成的。在三个实验室实验中，那些被允许对结果产生满意的参与者特别有可能得出这样的结论：外部因素潜意识地影响了他们对伴侣的选择（研究1），洞察了他们的音乐偏好（研究2），在给他们毛绒玩具时有仁慈的意图（研究3）。这些结果表明，相信无所不知、无所不能和仁慈的外部动因，如上帝，可能部分源于人们未能认识到他们已经产生了自己的满足感。（PsycINFO数据库记录(c) 2016 APA，版权所有）
People typically underestimate their capacity to generate satisfaction with future outcomes. When people experience such self-generated satisfaction, they may mistakenly conclude that it was caused by an influential, insightful, and benevolent external agent. In three laboratory experiments, participants who were allowed to generate satisfaction with their outcomes were especially likely to conclude that an external agent had subliminally influenced their choice of partners (Study 1), had insight into their musical preferences (Study 2), and had benevolent intentions when giving them a stuffed animal (Study 3). These results suggest that belief in omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent external agents, such as God, may derive in part from people's failure to recognize that they have generated their own satisfaction.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)