音声呈示された状況情報からの自発的感情推論

抄録

We investigated whether we could spontaneously (i.e. without effort) infer other person's emotional state from his/her situational information, using the verbal recognition confirmation task. Participants first listened to verbal descriptions of a situation that induced irritation or anxiety, but the descriptions did not include emotional words. Then, participants were shown a series of written descriptions with congruent or incongruent emotional mimetic words. They responded if the descriptions were identical to the ones that they heard. As expected, the situational descriptions that included congruent emotional words were falsely confirmed as identical to the ones that they heard, whereas descriptions with incongruent words were not. However, the same result was observed under the condition of descriptions that included emotional words at the listening phase. Therefore it is suggested that the procedure of the experiment should be improved in order to reject the alternate interpretation.