Does incidental pride increase competency evaluation of others who appear careless? Discrete positive emotions and impression formation
Does incidental pride increase competency evaluation of others who appear careless? Discrete positive emotions and impression formation
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10.1371/journal.pone.0220883
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发表时间：
2019-08
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3.7
通讯作者：
Toshiki Saito;Kosuke Motoki;R. Nouchi;R. Kawashima;M. Sugiura
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作者：
Toshiki Saito;Kosuke Motoki;R. Nouchi;R. Kawashima;M. Sugiura
情感在各种社会关系中发挥着重要而多样的作用。尽管情绪的社会功能引起了越来越多的关注，但自豪感等积极情绪对印象形成的影响仍然知之甚少。这项研究利用社会投射理论，研究了偶然的自豪感如何影响那些犯了错误的人的印象，以及其他两个特征：这个人的热情和能力。参与者被随机指定接受自豪、敬畏或中性情绪的诱导。随后，他们被要求表达自己对犯过错误的人的印象，并对该人的热情和能力进行总体评价。一项招募大学生的实验室实验（研究 1，N = 79）表明，自豪感（一种由自我相关的成就引发的积极情绪）会导致对他人的能力评价更高。然而，一项针对中年成年人的预先注册在线实验（研究 2，N = 108）未能复制自豪感对其他人能力评估的影响。此外，另一项针对年轻人的预先注册在线实验（研究 3，N = 290）并未显示出对偶然情绪的成功操纵。这些结果表明，严格控制的实验设置可能会引发强烈的附带情绪，可能更适合展示对其他人评价的强烈自豪感。
Emotion plays important and diverse roles across various social relations. Although the social functions of emotion have attracted increased attention, the effects of positive emotions such as pride on impression formation remain poorly understood. Drawing on social projection theory, this study examined how incidental experiences of pride influenced the impressions of those who made a blunder, along with two other characteristics: the person’s warmth and competence. Participants were designated randomly to receive inductions of pride, awe, or a neutral emotion. Subsequently, they were asked to indicate their own impression of a person who had made a blunder and to rate their overall sense of that individual’s warmth and competence. A laboratory experiment recruiting university students (Study 1, N = 79) demonstrated that pride, a positive emotion elicited by a self-relevant achievement, led to higher competency evaluations of others. However, a pre-registered online experiment in middle-aged adults (Study 2, N = 108) failed to replicate the effects of pride on competency evaluations of others. Furthermore, another pre-registered online experiment in younger adults (Study 3, N = 290) did not show successful manipulation of incidental emotions. These results suggest that strictly controlled experimental settings that induce robust incidental emotions might be better for demonstrating a strong pride effect on the evaluation of others.