Suspension Bridge Effect

The drawbridge effect means that when a person crosses the drawbridge in fear, his heart will beat faster involuntarily. If you happen to meet a opposite sex at this time, then he will mistakenly think that the opposite sex in front of him is the other half of his life and have feelings for him.

This is because emotions are influenced by behavior. On the suspension bridge, due to the dangerous situation, people will unconsciously accelerate their heartbeat, which is misunderstood as "the physiological reaction caused by the other party's heartbeat", thus creating a feeling of love.

Experimental demonstration

ArthurAron (1974), a famous emotional psychologist, once did a classic field experiment and explained the reasons from the psychological point of view.

In the experiment, the researcher asked a beautiful female assistant to do a questionnaire survey among some college boys and make up a short story based on a picture. The special feature of the experiment is that the college students who participated in the experiment were divided into three groups and arranged in three different places. ?

One is a quiet park.

Second, on a strong and low stone bridge.

Third, the dangerous suspension bridge.

After a simple survey of all college students, the beauty left her name and phone number for the college students who participated in the experiment. If they want to know more about the experiment or contact her, they can call her. What the researchers want to explore is: what kind of stories will college students make up, and who will call the beautiful female assistant after the experiment?

The stories made up by the college students who participated in the experiment are very different, and so are the people who call the female assistant. The most interesting finding of the experimental results is that compared with the other two groups, the college students who participated in the dangerous suspension bridge experiment called the female investigators the most, and their stories contained more love colors.

Theoretical analysis: the wrong attribution of emotional arousal?

In the process of emotional experience, the first thing I feel is that the physical performance is different from the past, such as fever, rapid heartbeat and shaking hands. Next, you will involuntarily look for clues in the environment to explain the reasons for your physical performance at this time.

And many times, because it is difficult to accurately find out the real reason for our physical performance, we will have a wrong understanding of the reasons for our emotions.

For example, tachycardia caused by watching horror movies is understood as the fatal attraction of the opposite sex around you. In psychology, the process of people making false inferences about their feelings is called the false attribution of awakening.

Daily life scene

Scenes often seen in life or movies.

1. The beauty is in danger, and the handsome hero saves the beauty and marries her;

The two sexes in love run around in the jungle and then kiss deeply in the corner; ?

3. A man and a woman run hand in hand to avoid danger, and then their feelings further sublimate;

After the exciting roller coaster ride, the hearts of young couples seem to be more attached.

Now that you know the suspension bridge effect, all you have to do is calm down! Calm down! Calm down again!