Limited time perspective increases the value of calm
Autor: | Tamara Sims, Fan Zhang, Da Jiang, Helene H. Fung, Jeanne L. Tsai |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Value (ethics)
Time perspective Adult Male Experience sampling method Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Decision Making Longevity 050109 social psychology Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology Ideal (ethics) Young Adult Optimism Asian People Low arousal theory Surveys and Questionnaires Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology media_common Aged Aged 80 and over 05 social sciences Middle Aged Death Affect Hong Kong Female Psychology Arousal Social psychology |
Zdroj: | Emotion (Washington, D.C.). 16(1) |
ISSN: | 1931-1516 |
Popis: | Previous findings indirectly suggest that the more people perceive their time in life as limited, the more they value calm. No study, however, has directly tested this hypothesis. To this end, using a combination of survey, experience sampling, and experimental methods, we examined the relationship between future time perspective and the affective states that people ideally want to feel (i.e., their "ideal affect"). In Study 1, the more people reported a limited time perspective, the more they wanted to feel calm and experience other low-arousal positive states. In Study 2, participants were randomly assigned to a limited time or an expanded time condition. Participants in the limited time condition reported valuing calm and other low arousal positive states more than those in the expanded time condition. We discuss the implications of these findings for broadening our understanding of the factors that shape how people ideally want to feel, and their consequences for decision making. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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