Abstract:

The study explored the influence of embodied emotion on creative thinking of individuals with depression tendency. Two experiments were conducted by using the facial expression manipulation paradigm and body posture manipulation paradigm separately to manipulate the participants’ embodied emotions. In Experiment 1, the results showed that embodied positive emotions that induced by facial expression manipulation enhanced the implicit positive emotions and improved the performance on the uniqueness dimension of creative thinking for depressive-tendency individuals. In Experiment 2, the results showed that the embodied positive emotions that induced by expansion posture enhanced the implicit positive emotions but reduced the explicit negative emotions for depressive-tendency individuals. The embodied positive emotions were also beneficial to depressive-tendency individuals’ performance on the uniqueness and flexibility dimensions of creative thinking, whereas the embodied negative emotion that induced by crouching posture reduced their implicit positive emotion and explicit positive emotion.

Key words: depression tendency, embodied emotion, facial expression, body posture, creative thinking

摘要：

本研究以抑郁倾向个体为研究对象，探究具身情绪对其创造性思维的影响。实验1和实验2分别采用面部表情操纵和身体姿势操纵技术诱发被试的具身积极或消极情绪，以探究具身情绪对抑郁倾向个体创造性思维的影响。研究发现：(1)面部表情操纵诱发的具身积极情绪能够提升抑郁倾向个体的内隐积极情绪，且有利于抑郁倾向个体创造性思维独特性维度的表现；(2)扩张姿势操纵诱发的具身积极情绪能够提升抑郁倾向个体的内隐积极情绪并降低其外显消极情绪，且有利于抑郁倾向个体的创造性思维独特性维度和灵活性维度的表现；而蜷缩姿势操纵诱发的具身消极情绪降低了抑郁倾向个体的内隐积极情绪和外显积极情绪。

关键词: 抑郁倾向, 具身情绪, 面部表情, 身体姿势, 创造性思维