External Motivators of Self-Touching Behavior
External Motivators of Self-Touching Behavior
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自摸行为的外部动机
DOI：
10.2466/pms.2000.90.1.338
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Dan McBrayer
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作者：
Laura Heaven;Dan McBrayer
先前的研究表明，非语言的自我触摸行为可以由外部激励因素引起，比如关于昆虫的视频和文学段落。这项研究调查了在被认为是引起焦虑的刺激（听一篇关于水蛭的文章并回答问题）和非引起焦虑的刺激（一篇关于金丝雀的文章）的呈现之间，自我触摸行为的数量是否有所不同。它还调查了当受试者被动地听文章或积极地回答问题时，自我触摸的频率是否有差异。研究人员还观察到了男性和女性自我触摸频率的差异。总的来说，受试者在焦虑诱导刺激下的自我触摸动作并没有明显多于非焦虑诱导刺激下的自我触摸动作，正如之前的研究表明的那样，受试者在回答问题时比在听文章时明显更多地触摸自己。总体而言，男性的自摸行为明显多于女性。而且，女性在活跃的焦虑诱导细胞中比在其他任何情况下触摸自己的次数都要多。
Previous research has shown that nonverbal self-touching behaviors can be induced by external motivators such as videos and literary passages about insects. This study investigated whether the number of self-touching behaviors differed between presentation of what was assumed to be an anxiety-inducing stimulus (listening to the reading of a passage about leeches and answering questions) or a nonanxiety-inducing stimulus (a passage about canaries). It also investigated whether there was a difference in frequency of self-touching when subjects were passively listening to passages or actively answering questions. The difference in frequency of self-touching between men and women was also observed. Over-all, subjects did not perform significantly more self-touching gestures during the anxiety-inducing stimulus than during the nonanxiety-inducing, as previous research had indicated Subjects did touch themselves significantly more, however, while answering questions than while listening to the passage. Over-all, men performed significantly more self-touching behaviors than women. And, women touched themselves significantly more during the active anxiety-inducing cell than in any other condition.