你是否曾经有过 “艰难的一天”并非只是一种隐喻的这种感觉？ 据一项新的研究披露，我们的基本触觉确实会以这种隐喻的方式影响到我们更高的社会认知过程，6月25日的《科学》杂志报道。
Joshua Ackerman及其同僚通过一个系列的6项实验证明，简单的触觉经验（如手持一个重或轻的写字夹板，解决困难的七巧板游戏或顺利完成智力拼图游戏以及触摸坚硬或柔软的物体等）都会下意识地影响人们有关不相干的人和处境的印象和决定。 通过简单操控受试者所接触到的物体的重量、硬度或粗糙程度，这些研究人员能够使他们的受试者在不相干领域所做出的社会判断和行为发生偏差。
例如，使用重的物体会使受试者感到其所应对的东西似乎比较重要，触摸粗糙的物体可使受试者相信社交性互动比较困难；感觉坚硬的物体会增加受试者在某种游戏的商议中的刻版性。
由于触觉既是人类第一个得到发育的感觉，又是收集资讯和应付我们环境的一种关键性的手段，因此这些研究人员提出，这类的对外部世界的早期实体摸索具有延后作用，并会对那些对我们日后的行为和对他人的印象产生深刻的影响。(生物谷www.Bioon.net)
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Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1189993
Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions
Joshua M. Ackerman,1 Christopher C. Nocera,2 John A. Bargh3
1 Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E62, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
2 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
3 Department of Psychology, Yale University, Post Office Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Touch is both the first sense to develop and a critical means of information acquisition and environmental manipulation. Physical touch experiences may create an ontological scaffold for the development of intrapersonal and interpersonal conceptual and metaphorical knowledge, as well as a springboard for the application of this knowledge. In six experiments, holding heavy or light clipboards, solving rough or smooth puzzles, and touching hard or soft objects nonconsciously influenced impressions and decisions formed about unrelated people and situations. Among other effects, heavy objects made job candidates appear more important, rough objects made social interactions appear more difficult, and hard objects increased rigidity in negotiations. Basic tactile sensations are thus shown to influence higher social cognitive processing in dimension-specific and metaphor-specific ways.
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