Minds of Monsters: Scary Imbalances Between Cognition and Emotion.

IF 3.4 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Ivan Hernandez, Ryan S Ritter, Jesse L Preston
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Abstract

Four studies investigate a fear of imbalanced minds hypothesis that threatening agents perceived to be relatively mismatched in capacities for cognition (e.g., self-control and reasoning) and emotion (e.g., sensations and emotions) will be rated as scarier and more dangerous by observers. In ratings of fictional monsters (e.g., zombies and vampires), agents seen as more imbalanced between capacities for cognition and emotion (high cognition-low emotion or low cognition-high emotion) were rated as scarier compared to those with equally matched levels of cognition and emotion (Studies 1 and 2). Similar effects were observed using ratings of scary animals (e.g., tigers, sharks; Studies 2 and 3), and infected humans (Study 4). Moreover, these effects are explained through diminished perceived control/predictability over the target agent. These findings highlight the role of balance between cognition and emotion in appraisal of threatening agents, in part because those agents are seen as more chaotic and uncontrollable.

怪物之心》:认知与情感之间可怕的失衡。
四项研究调查了对失衡心理的恐惧假设,即被认为在认知能力(如自我控制和推理)和情感能力(如感觉和情绪)方面相对不匹配的威胁物会被观察者评为更可怕和更危险。在对虚构的怪物(如僵尸和吸血鬼)进行评级时,与认知和情感水平相当的怪物相比,被认为认知和情感能力更不平衡的怪物(高认知-低情感或低认知-高情感)被评为更可怕(研究 1 和 2)。通过对可怕动物(如老虎、鲨鱼;研究 2 和 3)和受感染人类(研究 4)的评级也观察到了类似的效应。此外,这些效应可以通过降低对目标物的感知控制/可预测性来解释。这些发现凸显了认知和情感之间的平衡在评价威胁因素中的作用,部分原因是这些因素被视为更加混乱和不可控。
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期刊介绍: The Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is the official journal for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. The journal is an international outlet for original empirical papers in all areas of personality and social psychology.
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