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

情绪控制理论是一种数学模型，描述了社会角色、行为和情绪之间的相互关系。这个项目使用了五项研究来检验该理论的预测。第一项研究在自然环境中测试了这一理论，方法是在人们正常醒着的活动中随机采样人们的情绪。这将是第一个获得人们实际经历的具有代表性的情感样本的研究之一。该理论认为，当人们从一个角色转换到另一个角色时，他们的情绪应该以特定的方式改变。第二项研究将使用受试者对不寻常事件描述的反应(在受控的实验室条件下呈现给他们)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。第五部分探讨了这一理念对我国刑事司法制度的现实启示。如果这一理论是正确的，那么对被判有罪的罪犯的判决会受到他们情绪表现的违反直觉的影响。

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.