Choice and the Development of Affect

选择与情感的发展

• 批准号: 9975347
• 负责人: Ellen Peters
• 金额: $ 17.62万
• 依托单位: Decision Science Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-08-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9975347&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Choice; Development; Affect

How do we decide what choices to make, what options to choose, and what options to forsake? Although decisions can certainly be the result to careful thought, the present research examines the role of affect (or feelings) in helping us to navigate through the complex and uncertain choices of our world. Previous research has focused on the devlopment of affect among simple choices that yield either good or bad outcomes (but not both good and bad). In real life, however, we rarely encounter situations or objects that are completely rewarding or altogether punishing. In this series of projects we will focus on how affective feelings might develop and influence choices among options that are complex mitures of gains and losses. Three important questions will be addressed in the proposed research: (1) When we have both good and bad experiences with options, how does learning from these experiences influences our feelings and our choices?; (2) Can our feelings about an option be changed and influence our choices without any change to the objective facts we "know" about that option?; and (3) Is careful thought necessary for feelings to guide the choices we make?

我们如何决定做出哪些选择、选择哪些选项以及放弃哪些选项？ 尽管决策肯定是经过深思熟虑的结果，但目前的研究探讨了情感（或感觉）在帮助我们应对世界复杂且不确定的选择方面的作用。 先前的研究主要集中在简单选择中情感的发展，这些选择会产生好或坏的结果（但不是既好又坏）。 然而，在现实生活中，我们很少遇到完全奖励或完全惩罚的情况或物体。 在这一系列的项目中，我们将重点关注情感感受如何发展并影响在复杂的得失混合体中做出的选择。 拟议的研究将解决三个重要问题：（1）当我们在选择方面有好的和坏的经历时，从这些经历中学习如何影响我们的感受和选择？ （2）我们对某个选项的感受是否可以改变并影响我们的选择，而不改变我们“了解”的关于该选项的客观事实？ (3) 深思熟虑是否需要情感来指导我们做出的选择？