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Hernandez, Ivan, Ritter, Ryan S. and Preston, Jesse L. (2024) Minds of monsters : scary imbalances between cognition and emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin . doi:10.1177/01461672231160035 ISSN 0146-1672. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231160035
Abstract
Four studies investigate a fear of imbalanced minds hypothesis that threatening agents perceived to be relatively mismatched in capacities for cognition (e.g., self-control and reasoning) and emotion (e.g., sensations and emotions) will be rated as scarier and more dangerous by observers. In ratings of fictional monsters (e.g., zombies and vampires), agents seen as more imbalanced between capacities for cognition and emotion (high cognition–low emotion or low cognition–high emotion) were rated as scarier compared to those with equally matched levels of cognition and emotion (Studies 1 and 2). Similar effects were observed using ratings of scary animals (e.g., tigers, sharks; Studies 2 and 3), and infected humans (Study 4). Moreover, these effects are explained through diminished perceived control/predictability over the target agent. These findings highlight the role of balance between cognition and emotion in appraisal of threatening agents, in part because those agents are seen as more chaotic and uncontrollable.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Perception, Fear , Emotions , Cognition | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0146-1672 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2024 | ||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1177/01461672231160035 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||
Re-use Statement: | Posted ahead of print. Hernandez, Ivan, Ritter, Ryan S. and Preston, Jesse L. (2023) Minds of monsters : scary imbalances between cognition and emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Copyright © 2023 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/psp Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2023 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 February 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 February 2023 | ||||||||
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