Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning

IF 1.7 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Motivation and Emotion Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI:10.1007/s11031-024-10080-3

Michael D. Robinson, Muhammad R. Asad, Roberta L. Irvin

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Abstract

Projective tests, which were thought to provide key insights concerning motivation, have largely disappeared from personality psychology. Participants in the present studies (total N = 924) were presented with a Revised Animal Preference Test (RAPT) that quantifies desires to be predator animals in a reliable manner. Drawing from several literatures, including the psychopathy literature, it was hypothesized that higher levels of predator self-identification would be linked to higher levels of fearlessness as well as lower levels of negative emotionality. Consistent with this analysis, participants wishing to be predator (relative to prey) animals scored lower in neuroticism (Study 1), responded to physical threat scenarios in a fearless manner (Study 2), and exhibited lower levels of emotionality in their daily lives (Study 3). The RAPT appears to assess motivations that are linked with callous-unemotional functioning. The findings can be extended, however, and future directions are highlighted.

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行动重于感觉：修订版动物偏好测试与胼胝-非情感功能

投射测验被认为能提供有关动机的关键信息，但在人格心理学中已基本消失。本研究向参与者（总人数 = 924）提供了修订版动物偏好测试（RAPT），该测试能以可靠的方式量化捕食动物的欲望。根据多篇文献（包括心理变态文献）的假设，较高水平的捕食者自我认同将与较高水平的无畏以及较低水平的消极情绪有关。与这一分析相一致的是，希望成为捕食者（相对于猎物）动物的参与者的神经质程度较低（研究 1），对身体威胁情景的反应无所畏惧（研究 2），并且在日常生活中表现出较低的情绪化水平（研究 3）。RAPT 似乎评估了与冷酷无情-非情绪化功能相关的动机。不过，研究结果还可以进一步扩展，并强调了未来的研究方向。

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期刊介绍： Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior. Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion. Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles. However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make. Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.