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Predicción emocional en situaciones de discrepancia o coincidencia de deseos

Emotional prediction in desire mismatching or matching situations

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Pages 325-341 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

El objetivo de este artículo es doble: a) comprobar si la coincidencia y discrepancia entre los deseos de los participantes y los de un personaje producen diferencias en la predicción emocional y b) si la capacidad de “descen- tración”, necesaria para hacer una predicción correcta de emoción cuando los deseos no coincidían, podría ser similar a la que los niños necesitan para resolver la tarea de falsa creencia. Los participantes expresaban en primer lugar su propio deseo con relación a dos alternativas posibles y después veían una película en la que el deseo del protagonista coincidía o no con el deseo propio. Los resultados obtenidos indican que la predicción emocional no sólo es el resultado de la relación entre estados mentales y realidad sino que con ella interactúan factores de carácter afectivo como la valencia de la emoción o el significado afectivo de las personas que satisfacen o no los deseos.

Abstract

The goal of this paper is twofold: a) to analyse if coincidences and discrepancies between participants' desires and those of a film character produce differences in emotion prediction, and b) if the perspective taking ability, necessary to make correct emotion prediction when desires do not match, could be similar to the ability children need to solve false belief tasks. Participants were first asked to express their own desire with respect to two possible alternatives, afterwards they watched a film in which the protagonist's desire either matched or did not match their own. The results indicate that emotion prediction is not only a function of the relation between mental states and reality, but that affective factors also interact with it, such as, emotional valence or the affective meaning of those that satisfy or not their desires. Finally the study discusses the claim that the developmental gap between understanding of desires and beliefs may be attributed to their different representational natures.

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