The Influence of Other's Positive Emotion on Vicarious Self-control Restoration: The Moderation Effect of Interpersonal Sensitivity

Abstract

Abstract: The state of self restoration can be vicariously transmitted from a target to a perceiver simply by imagining the perspective of a restored target. The present study examined the effect of vicarious restoration of other's positive emotion, and how interpersonal sensitivity influenced this kind of vicarious effect. Data were obtained from 331 college students. In experiment 1 and 2, after depleting self control resources, participants were shown materials about the positive emotion, neutral emotion of others and the positive emotion of their own, then they were asked to do the pricing task to weight the effect of vicarious restoration. And Experiment 2 also measured the interpersonal sensitivity through eyes reading test. The results were as follows:depleted participants who took the perspective of someone engaging in other's positive mood priced less than others, and it only emerged if the target showed a high level of interpersonal sensitivity. The price of other's positive emotion group and the own positive emotion group had no difference. Taken together, the present studies verified that others' positive emotion can restore self control resources vicariously and interpersonal sensitivity serves as a moderated variable.

Key words: vicarious restoration, positive emotion, interpersonal sensitivity, self-regulation resources

摘要： 替代恢复指通过想象他人资源恢复可恢复自身的资源。研究探讨了他人积极情绪的替代恢复及人际敏感性的调节作用。本研究以331名大学生为被试，实验1和2通过消词任务消耗自控资源后，用文字材料呈现他人积极、他人中性情绪和自我积极情绪，用定价任务考察自控资源的恢复，实验2通过眼神测验测量人际敏感性。结果发现，自控资源消耗后，他人积极情绪组对商品的平均定价比他人中性情绪组低，且只在眼测得分高的个体中存在，他人积极情绪组与自我积极情绪组没有差别。研究证实了他人积极情绪对自控资源的替代恢复及人际敏感性的调节作用。

关键词: 替代恢复, 积极情绪, 人际敏感性, 自我控制资源

CLC Number:

B844.2

HU Shengnan, CHENG Zhijuan, DOU Donghui, ZHANG Hongchuan, WENG Xuedong. The Influence of Other's Positive Emotion on Vicarious Self-control Restoration: The Moderation Effect of Interpersonal Sensitivity[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(1): 45-50.

胡圣楠, 成志娟, 窦东徽, 张红川, 翁学东. 他人积极情绪对自我控制资源的替代恢复及机制[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2018, 16(1): 45-50.

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