The Affect Misattribution Procedure Revisited: An Informational Account
研究提出情感误归因程序中的效应可由信息性解释说明，即参与者将任务简化为判断目标是否愉悦，并利用启动刺激的情感信息作答。三个预注册实验通过修改响应选项可取消甚至反转效应，支持该解释。
The aim of this research was to test an informational explanation of the effects observed in the affect misattribution procedure (AMP). According to this explanation, participants performing the AMP would simplify the task by asking whether the target is pleasant (yes vs. no) and would use the affective information provided by the prime to answer the question (positive = yes, negative = no). In line with this proposition, we observed in three preregistered experiments that slightly modifying the response options proposed in the task moderated the effect, which can be canceled (Experiment 1) and even reversed (Experiments 2 and 3). These results are consistent with the informational explanation and seem difficult to explain by the operation of misattribution processes.