3月21日的《科學(xué)》（Science）雜志報道說,，腦研究者已經(jīng)知道，只要大腦考慮做某種動作就會引起身體的運動,，而該運動者并非有意識地決定要做動作,。如今，Henk Aart及其同僚顯示,，當(dāng)人們在接受關(guān)于做出動作信息的同時還伴隨聽到些許下意識的“鼓勵性言論”的話,，做該動作的人會付出更大的努力。研究人員對這一想法進行了測試,。他們先向人們顯示一組如“用力”等與努力有關(guān)的詞匯,，然后對他們握力測試的表現(xiàn)進行測量。結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn),，那些看到鼓勵性詞匯（諸如“好”）與要努力的詞匯混合出現(xiàn)的人要比那些僅看到要努力的詞匯者具有更強且快速的握力測試表現(xiàn),。作者說，這表明正面的詞匯可以激發(fā)人們付出更大的努力來做某項工作,。（來源：EurekAlert!中文版）
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（Science）,，Vol. 319. no. 5870, p. 1639，Henk Aarts,，Hans Marien
Preparing and Motivating Behavior Outside of Awareness
Henk Aarts,* Ruud Custers, Hans Marien
The mere activation of the idea of a behavioral act moves the human body without the person consciously deciding to take action. In an experiment, we showed that people subliminally primed with the concept of exertion were faster to squeeze a hand grip forcefully but expended more effort when the subliminal primes were directly accompanied by consciously visible positive stimuli. These findings demonstrate the human capacity to rely on mental processes in preparing and motivating behavior outside of awareness.
Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, Netherlands.
