Abstract Dual‐system models propose that cognitive processing can occur either intuitively or deliberately. Unlike deliberate decision strategies, intuitive ones are assumed to have an emotional component attached to the decision process. We tested if intuitive decisions are indeed accompanied by an emotional response while deliberate decisions are not. Specifically, we conducted a psychophysiological study in which participants were instructed to decide either intuitively or deliberately if three simultaneously presented words were semantically coherent or incoherent (triad task). The degree of emotionality of these two decision strategies (intuitive vs. deliberate) was compared using changes in electrodermal activity (EDA) and the reaction time (RT) effect of an affective priming paradigm as primary measurements. Based on a valence‐arousal model, our results revealed that intuitive and deliberate judgments do not differ as to their emotional valence but that they do differ in emotional arousal. Most notably, sympathetic activation during intuitive judgments was significantly lower compared to sympathetic activation during deliberate judgments. Our results reflect that a relaxed state of mind—manifested in low sympathetic activity—could underlie the holistic processing that is assumed to facilitate the proliferation of semantic associations during coherence judgments. This suggests that coherence judgments made under an (instructed) intuitive decision mode have a specific psychophysiological signature and that arousal is the differentiating component between intuitive and deliberate decision strategies. © 2016 The Authors Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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仔细审视直觉连贯判断的情感本质

摘要 双系统模型提出认知处理可以是直觉的，也可以是有意的。与深思熟虑的决策策略不同，直觉决策策略被认为具有与决策过程相关的情感成分。我们测试了直觉决定是否确实伴随着情绪反应，而深思熟虑的决定则没有。具体来说，我们进行了一项心理生理学研究，其中指示参与者凭直觉或有意地决定三个同时出现的词是语义连贯还是不连贯（三元组任务）。使用皮肤电活动 (EDA) 的变化和情感启动范式的反应时间 (RT) 效应作为主要测量值，比较了这两种决策策略（直觉与故意）的情绪程度。基于价态唤醒模型，我们的结果表明，直觉判断和刻意判断在情绪效价方面没有区别，但在情绪唤醒方面确实不同。最值得注意的是，与故意判断期间的交感神经激活相比，直觉判断期间的交感神经激活显着降低。我们的结果反映了一种放松的心态——表现为低交感神经活动——可能是整体处理的基础，该处理被假定为在连贯判断期间促进语义关联的扩散。这表明在（受指导的）直觉决策模式下做出的连贯性判断具有特定的心理生理学特征，而唤醒是直觉决策策略和深思熟虑决策策略之间的区别成分。© 2016 The Authors Journal of Behavioral Decision Making by John Wiley &