Durganand Sinha found that attitudes formed from a preceding experience influenced participants’ responses to the succeeding one in a laboratory experiment on memory ( Davis & Sinha, 1950 ). He also found that the people of Darjeeling who were affected by the landslide in 1950 had spread rumours to make sense of their surroundings via cognitive and emotional responses ( Sinha, 1952 ). In this article, the author pays tributes to Sinha by making a new case for the importance of attitudes-and-attraction experiments in bolstering his earlier findings. That attitude similarity effects on attraction are stronger when the correctness of the participant’s views is objectively unverifiable rather than verifiable matches with the evidence for efforts about meaning among the Darjeeling residents in the absence of information. Likewise, validation of one’s attitudes by peers and then experiencing positive affect in attraction represent the very same respective cognitive and emotional urges of the Darjeeling people during the post-landslide period. These findings jointly validate Sinha’s views on the prevalence of attitude-driven responding, fusion between responses and sequential relation between cognitive and emotional urges in everyday life.

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验证理解周围环境的认知和情感冲动：态度吸引的案例

Durganand Sinha 在一项关于记忆的实验室实验中发现，先前经历形成的态度会影响参与者对后续经历的反应（Davis & Sinha，1950）。他还发现，1950 年受山体滑坡影响的大吉岭人民散布谣言，通过认知和情感反应来了解周围的环境（Sinha，1952）。在这篇文章中，作者通过提出新的案例来证明态度和吸引力实验在支持辛哈早期发现方面的重要性，以此向辛哈致敬。当参与者观点的正确性客观上无法验证而不是可验证的与在缺乏信息的情况下大吉岭居民的意义努力的证据相匹配时，态度相似性对吸引力的影响会更强。同样，同伴对自己态度的认可，以及在吸引力中体验到的积极影响，代表了山体滑坡后时期大吉岭人各自的认知和情感冲动。这些发现共同验证了辛哈关于日常生活中态度驱动的反应、反应之间的融合以及认知和情感冲动之间的顺序关系的普遍性的观点。