TY - JOUR
T1 - Does incidental pride increase competency evaluation of others who appear careless? Discrete positive emotions and impression formation
AU - Saito, Toshiki
AU - Motoki, Kosuke
AU - Nouchi, Rui
AU - Kawashima, Ryuta
AU - Sugiura, Motoaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant number 17H06046 [Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)] and Research Grant of Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced Research and Education, Tohoku University. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17H06046 [Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a Proposed Research Area)] and Research Grant of Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced Research and Education, Tohoku University. Funding sources of the trial had no involvement in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, or the writing of the manuscript.
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PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0220883
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0220883
M3 - Article
C2 - 31393917
AN - SCOPUS:85070352044
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 14
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 8
M1 - e0220883
ER -