Exploring the Effects of Sadness on Social Acuity

探索悲伤对社交敏锐度的影响

基本信息

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
项目类别：
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

项目摘要

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）：本研究将探讨轻微、短暂的悲伤如何影响形成有效社会判断的能力。本研究计划的主要目的是测试为解决该领域过去的不一致问题而提出的理论模型。该模型假设言语和非言语线索对判断任务的相对贡献对于悲伤影响判断准确性的方式具有重要影响。具体来说，假设悲伤会导致信息处理方式的转变，更加注重言语暗示，而不那么强调非言语暗示。因此，当相关结构的诊断线索主要编码在语言通道中时，判断应该得到增强，而当诊断线索主要编码在非语言通道中时，判断应该减弱。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加重视言语暗示之间的联系。研究 2 测试了更加重视言语线索与社会判断准确性的不对称影响之间的后续联系。最后，研究 3 通过诱发悲伤并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。