Embodying Emotion in Interaction: A Biocultural-Linguistic Study of Communication and Physiology

在互动中体现情感：交流和生理学的生物文化语言学研究

• 批准号: 1826775
• 负责人: Sonya Pritzker
• 金额: $ 31.59万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1826775&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Embodying; Emotion; Interaction; Biocultural; Linguistic

Personal relationships are often a source of comfort and support, but they can also be a source of stress and conflict. Previous laboratory and self-report research indicates that communication between partners is predictive of relational satisfaction and well-being. It also demonstrates that relational behaviors are linked to physical responses in the body that impact both short- and long-term health, and suggests that everyday emotion-laden communication between intimate partners influences physical outcomes and that, in turn, physical responses concurrently influence communication. We only have limited understanding, however, of what this relationship between communication, emotion, and the body looks like on a day-to-day basis, and on how this process differs in relation to racial, socioeconomic, and other cultural pressures influencing different couples. Therefore, understanding the multi-directional processes through which culture, communication, and physiological regulation co-emerge, outside of the laboratory and in specific emotion-laden interactions between intimate partners at home, can lead to more developed scientific understanding about how interpersonal behavior and physical wellbeing are connected. Findings from this research will provide insight into how communication between partners functions as a mediator of both intermediate and long-term effects on wellbeing. Ultimately, this research has implications for individual, relational, and societal health and wellbeing. At the University of Alabama, the project also contributes to the development of a new interdisciplinary program, and the training of both graduate and undergraduate students, including underrepresented minorities.Drs. Sonya Pritzker, Jason DeCaro, and Joshua Pederson of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa will develop innovative theoretical and methodological models for understanding how the human body affects and is affected by everyday communication in the context of culture. The purpose of this research is to provide evidence for the ways that regular co-constructed patterns of emotion communication relate to physiological outcomes, ultimately affecting psychosocial wellbeing among couples in everyday life. The research thus takes an ethnographic approach to the study of relating among adult partners in the Southeastern U.S., emphasizing naturalistic observation, video-recoding, in-depth interviews, and close monitoring of physiological activity over multiple days. The researchers aim to collect anthropologically sound evidence for the reciprocal ways moment-to-moment physiology is affected by and affects emotion communication in everyday life, and how this process impacts indicators of psychosocial wellbeing among partners. The overarching intellectual merit of this research is the development of theoretical frameworks and methodological tools for innovative research programs examining intersections between language, culture, and the human body in multiple settings. This project thus brings together disparate subfields of anthropology and related disciplines, contributes to psychological understandings about the dynamics of emotions, and provides unprecedented insight into the ways in which everyday communication among intimate partners is linked to physiological processes. Building on the findings from laboratory studies, this project further addresses the complex layers of culture and communication in relationships within everyday lived experiences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人际关系通常是舒适和支持的来源，但它们也可能是压力和冲突的来源。先前的实验室和自我报告研究表明，伴侣之间的沟通可以预测关系满意度和幸福感。它还表明，关系行为与身体中影响短期和长期健康的身体反应有关，并表明亲密伴侣之间每天充满情感的交流会影响身体结果，反过来，身体反应又会同时影响交流。然而，我们对日常交流、情感和身体之间的关系，以及这个过程与影响不同夫妇的种族、社会经济和其他文化压力之间的差异，了解得很有限。因此，了解在实验室外以及在家中亲密伴侣之间充满情感的特定互动中，文化、交流和生理调节共同出现的多方向过程，可以促进对人际行为和身体健康如何联系的更深入的科学理解。这项研究的结果将为伴侣之间的沟通如何作为对幸福感的中期和长期影响的中介提供洞察。归根结底，这项研究对个人、关系和社会的健康和福祉都有影响。在阿拉巴马大学，该项目还有助于一个新的跨学科项目的发展，以及对研究生和本科生的培训，包括代表性不足的少数民族。阿拉巴马大学塔斯卡卢萨分校的Sonya Pritzker、Jason DeCaro和Joshua Pederson将开发创新的理论和方法模型，以了解在文化背景下人体如何影响日常交流以及如何受到影响。这项研究的目的是为有规律的共同构建的情感交流模式与生理结果相关的方式提供证据，最终影响日常生活中夫妻之间的心理社会健康。因此，这项研究采用了人种学的方法来研究美国东南部成年伴侣之间的关系，强调自然观察、视频录制、深度访谈和对多天来生理活动的密切监测。研究人员的目标是收集人类学上可靠的证据，以了解日常生活中时时刻刻的生理学如何受到情感交流的影响，以及这一过程如何影响伴侣之间的心理社交健康指标。这项研究的最重要的智力价值是开发了理论框架和方法工具，用于研究多种环境下语言、文化和人体之间的交叉点的创新研究项目。因此，这个项目汇集了人类学和相关学科的不同子领域，有助于对情绪动态的心理学理解，并对亲密伴侣之间的日常交流与生理过程的联系提供了前所未有的洞察力。在实验室研究结果的基础上，该项目进一步解决了日常生活经验中复杂的文化和沟通层面。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。