When pooping babies become more appealing: the effects of nonconscious goal pursuit on experienced emotions |
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Authors: | Shidlovski Daniella Hassin Ran R |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. daniella.shidlovski@mail.huji.ac.il |
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Abstract: | In this report, we argue that the intensity of the emotions people experience is partly determined by the goals they nonconsciously pursue, and that this effect is functional in nature: Emotions are modulated in ways that may increase the probability of goal achievement. To test this hypothesis, we primed female participants with a motherhood goal and then measured their level of disgust in response to mildly disgusting pictures. Priming led to a reduction of disgust in response to goal-relevant stimuli (e.g., pictures of babies with runny noses) but not goal-irrelevant stimuli. This effect was moderated by the women's probability of conception, a proxy of their ability to pursue the motherhood goal. |
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