The pleasures of uncertainty: prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate.
The pleasures of uncertainty: prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate.
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.88.1.5
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Timothy D. Wilson;David B. Centerbar;D. A. Kermer;D. Gilbert
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作者：
Timothy D. Wilson;David B. Centerbar;D. A. Kermer;D. Gilbert
作者假设，积极事件之后的不确定性会延长其带来的快感，而人们通常没有意识到不确定性的影响。在3个实验设置中，人们在确定或不确定的情况下(例如，容易或困难地理解卡片上的文字)经历了积极的事件(例如，收到了一个意外的礼物，即附在索引卡上的一美元硬币)。正如预测的那样，在不确定的条件下，人们的积极情绪持续的时间更长。研究结果与快乐悖论相一致，即用来理解积极事件的认知过程会减少人们从中获得的快乐感。预测者似乎没有意识到这一悖论；他们压倒性地更喜欢处于特定的条件下，并倾向于预测他们在这些条件下会有更好的情绪。
The authors hypothesized that uncertainty following a positive event prolongs the pleasure it causes and that people are generally unaware of this effect of uncertainty. In 3 experimental settings, people experienced a positive event (e.g., received an unexpected gift of a dollar coin attached to an index card) under conditions of certainty or uncertainty (e.g., it was easy or difficult to make sense of the text on the card). As predicted, people's positive moods lasted longer in the uncertain conditions. The results were consistent with a pleasure paradox, whereby the cognitive processes used to make sense of positive events reduce the pleasure people obtain from them. Forecasters seemed unaware of this paradox; they overwhelmingly preferred to be in the certain conditions and tended to predict that they would be in better moods in these conditions.