Emotion as Confirmation and Disconfirmation of Identity: Research Testing Affect Control Theory

情绪作为身份的确认和否定：研究测试影响控制理论

• 批准号: 9008951
• 负责人: Lynn Smith-Lovin
• 金额: $ 10.39万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-10-01 至 1993-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9008951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emotion; Confirmation; Disconfirmation; Identity; Research

Affect control theory is a mathematical model that describes how social roles, behaviors, and emotions are related to one another. This project uses five studies to test predictions from the theory. The first study tests the theory in natural settings by sampling people's emotions at random times throughout their normal waking activities. It will be one of the first studies to get a representative sample of the emotions that people actually experience. The theory argues that people's emotions should change in specific ways when they change from one role to another. The second study will use subjects' reactions to descriptions of unusual events (presented to them under controlled laboratory conditions) to test ideas about how these atypical situations may influence emotional responses. The third and fourth studies test predictions about how other peoples' emotional reactions influence what we think about them. The fifth study pursues some practical implications of this idea for the criminal justice system. If the theory is true, the sentences handed down to convicted criminals are influenced in counterintuitive ways by their emotional displays.

情感控制理论是一种描述社会角色、行为和情感如何相互关联的数学模型。 该项目使用五项研究来测试理论预测。 第一项研究通过在人们正常清醒活动中随机时间对他们的情绪进行采样来在自然环境中测试该理论。 这将是首批获得人们实际经历的情绪代表性样本的研究之一。 该理论认为，当人们从一种角色转变为另一种角色时，他们的情绪应该以特定的方式发生变化。 第二项研究将利用受试者对异常事件描述（在受控实验室条件下呈现给他们）的反应来测试这些非典型情况如何影响情绪反应的想法。 第三和第四项研究测试了关于其他人的情绪反应如何影响我们对他们的看法的预测。 第五项研究探讨了这一想法对刑事司法系统的一些实际影响。 如果这个理论是正确的，那么对已定罪罪犯的判决就会受到他们的情绪表现的影响，这有悖常理。