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The Influence of Personal Harmony Value on Temporal Order Perception
Li Pan1,2, Xiting Huang1,2
1Research Center for Psychology and Social Development, Southwest University, No. 2 Tiansheng Road, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China.
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
|June 27, 2023
Summary
Personal values, like harmony, influence how individuals perceive the order of events. High-harmony individuals prioritize harmonious information in temporal order judgment tasks, demonstrating a link between values and perception.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Cultural Psychology
Background:
- Self-relevant information impacts temporal order perception.
- Personal values are core components of the self.
- The influence of personal values on temporal perception remains under-explored.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether personal values, specifically harmony, affect temporal order perception.
- To examine the role of value importance in this effect.
Main Methods:
- Participants were assessed for harmony values using a harmony scale.
- Participants were categorized into high- and low-harmony groups.
- Temporal order judgment (TOJ) tasks were employed to assess perception, with group validity confirmed via an implicit-association test.
Main Results:
- High-harmony individuals perceived harmonious stimuli before non-harmonious stimuli in TOJ tasks.
- This effect was not observed in the low-harmony group.
- The findings suggest a conditional influence of values on temporal perception.
Conclusions:
- Harmony values significantly influence temporal order perception.
- This influence is contingent upon the importance of the value to the individual.
- The study highlights the interplay between core personal values and cognitive processes like temporal perception.
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