情感启动行为研究概述

Affective Priming Effect and Its Behavioral Research Outline

在西方心理学界,情感启动的研究是近20年来的一个比较活跃的研究领域,研究者们采用多种实验任务和研究方法进行了大量实验,取得了一定的研究成果,证明了人的态度能够被自动激活,并提出了三种对情感启动效应的理论解释:激活扩散机制,反应冲突机制,情感匹配机制。但到目前为止,不同的研究之间仍然存在着一定的分歧。今后的研究应该重点探讨评价自动激活的内在机制,从而促进情感启动的无意识研究。

During the past two decades, the research of affective priming has been an important area in the region of western psychology. Much of research on attitude activation has employed various experimental tasks and methods, and the result of the intensive research implies that attitudes can be activated automatically. So far three kinds of models have been proposed: a spreading of activation account, a Stroop-like response conflict, an Affective-Matching mechanism. There is still debate over the results of different studies. Future researchers should focus their attention on the exploring of the interior mechanism of automatically evaluated activation, and so considerable progress can be expected in the studies of unconscious cognition on the affective priming.