威胁诱导的亲社会行为:增强外源注意力,以保护他人免受伤害
Maria Lojowska1, Federica Lucchi2, Manon Mulckhuyse3
1Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. lojowska.maria@gmail.com.
Scientific reports
|July 15, 2024
概括
保护他人免受伤害会自动激活注意力,类似于保护自己. 这种亲社会行为增强了认知过程,有助于在没有有意识的努力的情况下立即提供帮助.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 社会神经科学是一种社会神经科学.
- 注意力研究研究研究研究
背景情况:
- 人类表现出自愿的亲社会行为,以保护他人.
- 亲社会性对注意力等不太自愿的认知过程的影响尚未得到充分理解.
研究的目的:
- 调查对他人的威胁如何影响外来关注.
- 为了确定亲社会动机是否调节自动注意力反应.
主要方法:
- 54名参与者完成了一项外源空间暗示任务.
- 参与者的表现决定了对自己或其他参与者的冲击.
- 测量反应时间,准确性和瞳孔膨胀作为注意力和兴奋的指标.
主要成果:
- 对其他参与者的冲击威胁加快了定位和重定位反应.
- 亲社会威胁条件的注意力改善与自我威胁条件相匹配.
- 增加的瞳孔扩张表明在两个威胁条件下,无论速度精确度的权衡如何,都会引起更高的兴奋.
结论:
- 亲社会行为可以自动激发注意力系统.
- 这些发现表明,即时帮助可以通过自动的注意力过程来促进,而不仅仅是反射的过程.
- 这突出了社会环境中快速,无意识的援助的潜在机制.
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