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

情感控制理论是一个数学模型，描述了如何 社会角色、行为和情感是相互关联的。 该项目使用五项研究来测试来自 理论 第一项研究在自然环境中测试了这一理论， 在整个过程中随机取样人们的情绪， 正常的清醒活动。 这将是第一个研究， 得到一个有代表性的情绪样本， 体验. 该理论认为，人们的情绪应该 当他们从一个角色转变为 另 第二项研究将使用受试者的反应， 不寻常事件的描述（根据 控制实验室条件），以测试这些想法如何 非典型情况可能会影响情绪反应。 第三 第四项研究测试了对其他人的 情绪反应会影响我们对他们的看法。 的 第五项研究探讨了这一想法的一些实际影响， 刑事司法系统。 如果这个理论是正确的， 对已定罪罪犯的判决受到以下因素的影响： 通过他们的情绪表现来反直觉。

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.