COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF EMOTION

情绪的认知后果

• 批准号: 6196679
• 负责人: GERALD L CLORE
• 金额: $ 21.32万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6196679
• 关键词: attention; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; concept; decision making; emotions; human subject; memory; neuroanatomy; problem solving; satisfaction

The aim of the proposed research is to examine the cognitive processes by which emotional feelings influence memory, judgment, and information processing. Normally affective feelings provide conscious feedback about largely nonconscious emotional processes. The proposed research examines the information value of such feedback. The experiments involve the induction of mild mood states (e.g., with musical passages) to provide a source of affective feelings, so that their control of cognitive processes can be studied. The experiments ask three questions. (l) Are mood effects on memory governed by affective experience or by affective concepts? The research will compare the effects of feelings and ideas independently by activating each with a separate technique. (2) Do common processes underlie the effects on cognitive processing of both mood and unconscious ideas? Experiments involve presenting schematic smiling or frowning faces at exposures too brief to be consciously perceived to determine whether such apparently internally generated affective information has the same effects on processing as feelings of mood. (3) Is the relationship between positive vs. negative affect and attention to global vs. local stimuli a byproduct of their common neural circuitry or are dependent on the informational feedback properties of affective feelings? These processes each have potentially important implications for learning and for daily judgment, decision making, and problem solving, and research on them may provide a social cognitive basis for understanding emotional difficulty.

本研究的目的是探讨情绪感受影响记忆、判断和信息处理的认知过程。通常情况下，情感感受提供了对大部分无意识情感过程的有意识反馈。拟议中的研究探讨这种反馈的信息价值。实验涉及温和情绪状态的诱导（例如，与音乐段落），以提供情感的来源，使他们的控制认知过程可以研究。实验提出了三个问题。(l)情绪对记忆的影响是由情感经验还是情感概念决定的？这项研究将通过单独的技术激活每一种感觉和想法来比较它们各自的影响。(2)情绪和无意识观念对认知加工的影响是否存在共同的加工过程？实验涉及呈现示意性微笑或皱眉的面孔，这些面孔的曝光时间太短，无法有意识地感知，以确定这种明显的内部产生的情感信息是否与情绪感受对加工有相同的影响。(3)积极情感与消极情感之间的关系，以及对全局刺激与局部刺激的注意力之间的关系，是它们共同神经回路的副产品，还是依赖于情感感受的信息反馈特性？这些过程对学习、日常判断、决策和解决问题都有潜在的重要影响，对它们的研究可能为理解情感困难提供社会认知基础。