On the feeling of doing: Dysphoria and the implicit modulation of authorship ascription
On the feeling of doing: Dysphoria and the implicit modulation of authorship ascription
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DOI:
10.1016/j.brat.2005.12.004
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发表时间:
2006-11-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Dijksterhuis, Ap
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作者:
Aarts, Henk;Wegner, Daniel M.;Dijksterhuis, Ap
The experience of authorship arises when we feel that observed effects (e.g., the onset of a light) are caused by our own actions (e.g., pushing a switch). This study tested whether dysphoric persons' authorship ascription can be modulated implicitly in a situation in which the exclusivity of the cause of effects is ambiguous. In line with the idea that depressed individuals' self-schemata include general views of uncontrollability, in a subliminal priming task we observed that dysphoric (compared with nondysphoric) participants experienced lower authorship of action effects when the self-concept was primed. Priming the potential effects of an action just prior to their occurrence, however, increased experiences of authorship in all participants and eliminated the effect of self-concept priming on dysphoric participants' authorship experiences. These findings suggest that the human mental system seizes on a match between primed and actual action effect to establish a sense of authorship, even in a state of depression when persons have weak self-views of causing behavioral outcomes. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.