Social contagion of challenge-seeking behavior.

IF 3.7 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-09 DOI:10.1037/xge0001620
Cansu Ogulmus, Ying Lee, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Kou Murayama
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Despite having little economic utility, people are sometimes motivated to seek challenges (i.e., proactively choosing to work on a more difficult task than an easier one). The present study investigated whether just observing others' challenge-seeking behaviors could motivate people to seek more challenging tasks-the social contagion effect of challenge-seeking. The participants were presented with pairs of options, each associated with a math word problem of a certain difficulty level. We examined whether the participants' preference for a more challenging (i.e., more difficult) option changes after observing the decisions of others who hold a challenge-seeking or a challenge-avoiding attitude. Five experiments consistently showed that, while the participants generally avoided challenging word problems, observing challenge-seeking in others increased the probability of participants choosing more challenging options. These results indicate that our motivation to seek challenges may be instilled, in part, through social processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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寻求挑战行为的社会传染。
尽管没有什么经济效用,但人们有时还是会主动寻求挑战(即主动选择完成一项比容易的任务更难的任务)。本研究调查了观察他人寻求挑战的行为是否会促使人们寻求更具挑战性的任务--即寻求挑战的社会传染效应。研究人员向参与者展示了一对选项,每个选项都与一个具有一定难度的数学单词问题相关联。我们研究了在观察了其他持有寻求挑战或回避挑战态度的人的决定后,参与者对更具挑战性(即更难)的选项的偏好是否会发生变化。五项实验一致表明,虽然参与者一般都会回避具有挑战性的文字问题,但观察他人寻求挑战的行为会增加参与者选择更具挑战性选项的概率。这些结果表明,我们寻求挑战的动机可能部分是通过社会过程灌输的。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, psychopathology, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary, but shorter articles that bridge subdisciplines will also be considered.
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