Exploring the Effects of Sadness on Social Acuity

探索悲伤对社交敏锐度的影响

• 批准号: 6878068
• 负责人: Heather M Gray
• 金额: $ 3.05万
• 依托单位: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-10 至 2006-06-09
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6878068
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cues; depression; grief; human subject; impression; interpersonal relations; judgment; neural information processing; paralinguistic behavior; predoctoral investigator; psychological tests; social behavior; social perception; social psychology; university student; verbal behavior

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research will explore the manner in which mild, transient sadness influences the ability to form valid social judgments. The major objective of this research proposal is to test a theoretical model put forth to resolve past inconsistencies in this area. This model posits that the relative contribution of verbal and nonverbal cues to the judgment task has important consequences for the way sadness impacts judgment accuracy. Specifically, sadness is hypothesized to produce a shift in information-processing style that places more emphasis on verbal cues and less emphasis on nonverbal cues. As a result, judgments should be enhanced when diagnostic cues to the relevant constructs are primarily encoded in the verbal channel and diminished when diagnostic cues are primarily encoded in the nonverbal channel. Three studies will test these hypotheses. Study 1 tests the link between more careful reasoning and greater emphasis on verbal cues. Study 2 tests the subsequent link between greater emphasis on verbal cues and asymmetric effects on social judgment accuracy. Finally, Study 3 tests all stages of the model concurrently by inducing sadness and using indirect measures of the hypothesized cognitive mechanisms.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究将探讨轻度，短暂的悲伤影响形成有效社会判断的能力的方式。本研究建议的主要目标是测试提出的理论模型，以解决过去在这方面的不一致。这个模型假设，语言和非语言线索的相对贡献的判断任务有重要的后果的方式悲伤影响判断的准确性。具体来说，悲伤被假设为产生信息处理方式的转变，即更多地强调语言线索，而不太强调非语言线索。因此，当相关结构的诊断线索主要编码在语言通道中时，判断应该得到加强，而当诊断线索主要编码在非语言通道中时，判断应该减少。三项研究将检验这些假设。研究1测试了更仔细的推理和更强调口头暗示之间的联系。研究2测试了随后的联系，更强调语言线索和社会判断准确性的不对称影响。最后，研究3通过诱导悲伤和使用假设的认知机制的间接测量来同时测试模型的所有阶段。