ABSTRACT

A person can reap psychological benefits when sharing their accomplishments or capitalizing with a partner. These benefits often depend on whether a partner responds with enthusiasm; however, it is unknown what prompts enthusiastic responses. In two experiments, we aimed to examine whether partners reciprocate enthusiastic responses to capitalization attempts. In Study 1, participants (N = 394) who recalled their partner’s past enthusiastic feedback to capitalization attempts endorsed stronger intentions to respond enthusiastically to their partner’s capitalization attempts (relative to a comparison group recalling their partner’s prior demeaning feedback). In Study 2 (N = 326), we found that enthusiastic responses to capitalization attempts were reciprocated among romantic couples but reciprocation was not mediated by subjective emotion, emotional expressiveness, nor physiological responses. In conclusion, our findings support reciprocity in capitalization, i.e. romantic partners are more motivated and more likely to respond enthusiastically to capitalization attempts depending on their partner’s previous behavior.

摘要

一个人在与合作伙伴分享他们的成就或利用资本时可以获得心理上的好处。这些好处通常取决于合作伙伴是否热情地回应；然而，不知道是什么引起了热烈的反应。在两个实验中，我们旨在检查合作伙伴是否对资本化尝试做出了热情的回应。在研究 1 中，回忆他们的伴侣过去对资本化尝试的热情反馈的参与者 ( N = 394) 赞同更强烈的意图来热情地回应他们的合作伙伴的资本化尝试（相对于回忆他们的合作伙伴之前的贬低反馈的对照组）。在研究 2 ( N= 326），我们发现对资本化尝试的热情反应在浪漫情侣中得到了回报，但回报不受主观情绪、情绪表达或生理反应的调节。总之，我们的研究结果支持资本化的互惠性，即浪漫的伴侣更有动力并且更有可能对资本化尝试做出热情的反应，这取决于他们的伴侣以前的行为。