COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF EMOTION

情绪的认知后果

• 批准号: 6655006
• 负责人: GERALD L CLORE
• 金额: $ 14.68万
• 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/6655006
• 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.

这项研究的目的是考察情绪影响记忆、判断和信息处理的认知过程。正常情况下，情感会对大部分无意识的情绪过程提供有意识的反馈。这项拟议的研究考察了这种反馈的信息价值。这些实验包括诱导温和的情绪状态(例如，通过音乐段落)来提供情感的来源，以便研究它们对认知过程的控制。这些实验提出了三个问题。(L)情绪对记忆的影响是由情感体验还是由情感概念决定的？这项研究将通过使用不同的技术来单独激活情感和想法的效果，从而比较它们的效果。(2)共同的加工过程是否影响情绪和无意识想法的认知加工？实验涉及在暴露时间太短而无法有意识地感知的情况下展示示意性的微笑或皱眉的面孔，以确定这种明显是内部产生的情感信息是否与情绪感受在处理过程中具有相同的影响。(3)积极与消极情绪和对整体与局部刺激的注意之间的关系是它们共同的神经回路的副产品，还是依赖于情感的信息反馈特性？这些过程对学习和日常判断、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绪困难提供社会认知基础。