Authors: Toshiki Saito, Kosuke Motoki, Rui Nouchi, Ryuta Kawashima, Motoaki Sugiura（齊藤俊樹・元木康介・野内類・川島隆太・杉浦元亮）

Title: Does incidental pride increase competency evaluation of others who appear careless? Discrete positive emotions and impression formation

Journal(書誌情報）: PLOS ONE

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220883

論文URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220883

Abstract: Emotion plays important and diverse roles across various social relations. Although the social functions of emotion have attracted increased attention, the effects of positive emotions such as pride on impression formation remain poorly understood. Drawing on social projection theory, this study examined how incidental experiences of pride influenced the impressions of those who made a blunder, along with two other characteristics: the person’s warmth and competence. Participants were designated randomly to receive inductions of pride, awe, or a neutral emotion. Subsequently, they were asked to indicate their own impression of a person who had made a blunder and to rate their overall sense of that individual’s warmth and competence. A laboratory experiment recruiting university students (Study 1, N = 79) demonstrated that pride, a positive emotion elicited by a self-relevant achievement, led to higher competency evaluations of others. However, a pre-registered online experiment in middle-aged adults (Study 2, N = 108) failed to replicate the effects of pride on competency evaluations of others. Furthermore, another pre-registered online experiment in younger adults (Study 3, N = 290) did not show successful manipulation of incidental emotions. These results suggest that strictly controlled experimental settings that induce robust incidental emotions might be better for demonstrating a strong pride effect on the evaluation of others.

著者Contact先の email: toshiki.saito [at] med.tohoku.ac.jp ([at] を@に置き換えてください）（齊藤俊樹）

日本語によるコメント（オプション，200-300字で）
社会的交流において、感情は多様かつ重要な働きをしている。本研究では、ポジティブな感情状態（プライド・畏敬）が、他者に抱く第一印象に影響するか調べた。プライド感情を感じていると、相手をより有能だと評価した（研究１）。しかしながら、プレレジストレーションを行ったオンライン実験では、この効果は再現されず（研究２）、また、感情操作が成功しなかった（研究３）。本研究の結果から、実験室状況で厳密な感情操作を行った場合、プライド感情が他者に抱く第一印象に影響することが示唆された。

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