Affective Responses to Natural and Technological Disasters; An Evolutionary Perspective

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI:10.1007/s40750-023-00224-z

Soheil Shapouri, Leonard L. Martin, Omid Arhami

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Abstract

Objectives and Method

Anecdotal reports indicate more severe psychological distress following technological catastrophes in comparison to natural disasters. Previous research also suggests a more negative evaluation of the outcomes of disasters if they are manmade. On the other hand, evolutionary neuroscience shows differential neural processing of ancient and modern threats. Building upon this literature, we probed valence and arousal ratings of stimuli depicting natural and technological disasters in several standardized affective stimuli datasets used in neuroscience and psychological research.

Results

Our results show that while technological disasters are rated as slightly less arousing than natural disasters they are rated as significantly more unpleasant.

Conclusion

It seems the evolutionary age of disasters is one of the factors that affect emotional experiences evoked by these threats and can impact our evaluations of catastrophes. We discuss how evolutionary psychology might explain our findings and help us to better understand the biological and learned roots of our biases in risk perception.

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对自然和技术灾害的情感反应；进化论视角

目的和方法轶事报告表明，与自然灾害相比，技术灾难后更严重的心理困扰。先前的研究还表明，如果灾害是人为的，对其结果的评价会更负面。另一方面，进化神经科学显示了对古代和现代威胁的不同神经处理。在这些文献的基础上，我们在神经科学和心理学研究中使用的几个标准化情感刺激数据集中，探讨了描述自然和技术灾难的刺激的效价和唤醒评级。结果我们的研究结果表明，虽然技术灾害的唤起程度略低于自然灾害，但它们的令人不快程度明显更高。结论灾难的进化年龄似乎是影响这些威胁引发的情绪体验的因素之一，并可能影响我们对灾难的评估。我们讨论了进化心理学如何解释我们的发现，并帮助我们更好地理解风险感知偏见的生物学和学术根源。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.