Collaborative Research Examining the Relationship between Identity, Injustice, and Emotion

检验身份、不公正和情感之间关系的合作研究

• 批准号: 0519969
• 负责人: Dawn Robinson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0519969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Examining; Relationship; between

Collaborative ResearchSES- 0519969Dawn RobinsonJody Clay-RobinsonUniversity of GeorgiaSES- 0520055Lynn Smith-LovinDuke UniversityScholars widely agree that under-reward makes people feel negative emotions like depression and anger. But two major sociological theories of identity- affect control theory and identity control theory- make diametrically opposing predictions about how people respond to over-reward. This project will examine two main questions: (1) How do people feel when they are treated better than they feel they deserve? (2) What is the relationship between feeling and action in these situations of over-reward? The PIs will use innovative physiological measures to resolve this theoretical controversy in the sociological literature. This research will offer a new understanding of the relationship between identity, injustice, and emotion, while developing new measurement techniques to better distinguish the theoretical constructs of emotion and identity disconfirmation. The researchers hypothesize that emotional response to injustice is more related to identity than to justice itself. It is only when one thinks that one is being a bad person by being over-rewarded- getting ahead at someone else's expense and with their knowledge- that over-reward makes one feel bad. Over-reward will lead to negative emotion only when it creates a negative identity. Otherwise, the experience of receiving more than one deserves will disconfirm the pre-existing identity in a positive direction, and produce positive emotion. An interesting, counter-intuitive prediction of affect control theory is that even though over-rewarded participants will feel good, they will act to reduce the over-reward in future rounds of the experiments. Broader Impacts: The research has broader implications for work settings, political policy discussions and for understanding social movement. They will specify the conditions that lead to behavioral remedy for injustice, and the occasions in which other mechanisms are likely to be available for resolving any stress that results from over-reward. Since those who are under-rewarded are often not well positioned to help themselves gain more resources, the reactions of the over-rewarded are key to addressing many forms of injustice.

合作研究SES- 0519969Dawn Robinson乔迪·克莱-罗宾逊佐治亚大学SES- 0520055Lynn Smith-Lovin杜克大学学者普遍认为，奖励不足会使人们感到抑郁和愤怒等负面情绪。但是关于身份的两种主要社会学理论——情感控制理论和身份控制理论——对人们如何应对过度奖励做出了截然相反的预测。 该项目将研究两个主要问题：（1）当人们受到比他们认为应得的更好的待遇时，他们会有什么感觉？ （2）在这些过度奖励的情况下，感觉和行动之间的关系是什么？ PI 将使用创新的生理测量方法来解决社会学文献中的这一理论争议。这项研究将为身份、不公正和情感之间的关系提供新的理解，同时开发新的测量技术，以更好地区分情感和身份否定的理论结构。研究人员假设，对不公正的情绪反应更多地与身份相关，而不是与正义本身相关。只有当一个人认为自己因获得过度奖励而成为坏人时——以牺牲他人的利益和知识为代价取得成功——过度奖励才会让人感觉不好。过度奖励只有在产生负面认同时才会导致负面情绪。否则，获得超过应得的体验会朝积极的方向否定先前存在的身份，并产生积极的情绪。情感控制理论的一个有趣的、反直觉的预测是，即使过度奖励的参与者会感觉良好，他们也会在未来几轮的实验中采取行动减少过度奖励。 更广泛的影响：该研究对工作环境、政治政策讨论和理解社会运动具有更广泛的影响。他们将具体说明导致不公正行为补救的条件，以及可能使用其他机制来解决因过度奖励而产生的压力的情况。由于那些奖励不足的人往往无法帮助自己获得更多资源，因此奖励过多的人的反应是解决多种形式不公正现象的关键。