Abstract Research suggests that viewing successful or fortunate others’ social media portrayals may promote a more negative hedonic experience via social comparison tendencies, but this notion has rarely been tested experimentally. Here, we tested the possibility that viewing fortunate and unfortunate social media portrayals (vs. neutral portrayals) may also promote a negative hedonic experience. In Experiment 1, participants indicated their positive and negative affect before and after viewing either fortunate, unfortunate, or mundane (neutral) social media portrayals. Inconsistent with conventional theorizing, only participants who viewed the unfortunate portrayal reported more negative affect balance than participants who viewed the neutral portrayal. Experiment 2 provided conceptually similar results, indicating that participants viewing an unfortunate (vs. fortunate) portrayal indicated more negative affect balance. Although somewhat inconsistent with conventional wisdom, the findings suggest negative hedonic experiences can spread on social media.

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通过社交媒体传播负面影响：查看他人幸运和不幸社交媒体帖子的情感后果

摘要 研究表明，观看成功或幸运的他人社交媒体描绘可能会通过社会比较倾向促进更消极的享乐体验，但这一概念很少经过实验检验。在这里，我们测试了观看幸运和不幸的社交媒体描绘（相对于中性描绘）也可能促进负面享乐体验的可能性。在实验 1 中，参与者在查看幸运、不幸或平凡（中性）社交媒体描述之前和之后表明了他们的积极和消极影响。与传统理论不一致的是，只有看到不幸画面的参与者比看到中性画面的参与者报告了更多的负面情感平衡。实验 2 提供了概念上相似的结果，表明观看不幸（与幸运）写照的参与者表明更多的负面影响平衡。尽管与传统观点有些不一致，但研究结果表明负面的享乐体验可以在社交媒体上传播。