Feelings Don't Come Easy: Studies on the Effortful Nature of Feelings
Feelings Don't Come Easy: Studies on the Effortful Nature of Feelings
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DOI：
10.1037/a0020008
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发表时间：
2010-08-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Hassin, Ran R.
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作者：
Kron, Assaf;Schul, Yaacov;Hassin, Ran R.
我们认为情绪体验是一种心理现象，需要资源。这一假设意味着，同时的认知负荷会降低感觉的强度，因为这两种活动在争夺相同的资源。两组实验验证了这一假设。第一行实验（实验1-4）检测了参与者在执行第二项（倒数）任务时的情绪强度。结果表明，在认知负荷下，消极情绪和积极情绪的强度都有所减弱，这种减弱不是由外部刺激或需求特征引起的。在第二组实验（实验5-6）中，通过要求参与者专注于感受来产生负荷。即使在这种情况下，有负荷的参与者报告的感觉强度也低于没有负荷的参与者。我们用情感体验的资源依赖模型来解释这些发现。我们的发现对更广泛的现象学经验的可能含义进行了简明的讨论。
We propose that experience of emotion is a mental phenomenon, which requires resources. This hypothesis implies that a concurrent cognitive load diminishes the intensity of feeling since the 2 activities are competing for the same resources. Two sets of experiments tested this hypothesis. The first line of experiments (Experiments 1-4) examined the intensity of participants' feelings as they performed a secondary (backward counting) task. The results showed that the intensity of both negative and positive feelings diminished under a cognitive load and that this attenuation of feeling was not mediated by either distraction from external stimuli or demand characteristics. In the second set of experiments (Experiments 5-6), load was created by asking the participants to focus on the feelings. Even in these circumstances, the participants who were under load reported a lower intensity of feeling than those who were not under load. We explain these findings in terms of a resource-dependent model of emotional experience. Possible implications of our findings for a broader class of phenomenological experiences are succinctly discussed.