When we think about emotional ambiguity, we usually think about the feeling of ambivalence. However, in a recently proposed model, ambiguity might also be present in different emotional spaces, such as origin (dimensions of automaticity and reflectiveness) and activation (arousal and subjective significance) as proposed in the basics of dual-process theories. In two experiments, we checked for behavioural and psychophysical differences in processing words of origin and activation ambiguities while completing an emotionality rating task. In Experiment 1, we assessed emotionality ratings and reaction times; in Experiment 2, we used a webcam-based eye-tracking measurement to assess the number and mean duration of fixations. We found significant effects for words differing in origin and activation: the emotionality ratings increased within the intensity of origin ambiguity but decreased within the intensity of activation ambiguity; more and longer fixations were registered for words of higher origin ambiguity; and gradually fewer and shorter fixations were registered within increases in activation ambiguity. We found that the ambiguities on spaces of origin and activation produced their own main effects, but they also factored significantly into the interaction, modifying each other’s results. Our study is the first to show specifics of the perception of ambiguous stimuli on spaces other than valence.

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不仅仅是矛盾心理：对由行为和基于网络摄像头的眼动追踪相关的起源和激活空间的情感模糊词语的感知

当我们想到情感模糊时，我们通常会想到矛盾的感觉。然而，在最近提出的模型中，歧义也可能存在于不同的情感空间中，例如双过程理论基础中提出的起源（自动性和反思性的维度）和激活（唤醒和主观意义）。在两个实验中，我们检查了在完成情绪评级任务时处理源词和激活歧义的行为和心理物理差异。在实验 1 中，我们评估了情绪评级和反应时间；在实验 2 中，我们使用基于网络摄像头的眼球追踪测量来评估注视的次数和平均持续时间。我们发现来源和激活不同的单词会产生显着的影响：情绪评级在起源模糊性强度内增加，但在激活模糊性强度内降低；对于来源模糊性较高的单词，出现了更多、更长的注视；随着激活模糊度的增加，注视的数量逐渐减少且较短。我们发现，起源空间和激活空间的模糊性产生了各自的主要影响，但它们也显着影响了相互作用，修改了彼此的结果。我们的研究首次展示了对价态以外的空间的模糊刺激的感知细节。