The Effects Of Pride On Attentional Scope Under Different Sitting Postures

With the in-depth study, the relationship between positive emotions and cognition is not the only "positive-expansion, negative-narrowing" of the relationship, but more complexed and more refined. Under the background of positive psychology, scholars pay more attention to pride and other senior emotions because of their significance to people. Meanwhile, with the rise of the embodied theory, scholars can gain new understandings and new methods in the study of cognition and emotion. On the basis of previous studies, this paper specifically has designed three experiments to investigate the effects of pride on attentional scope and to explore the effects of sitting postures in the relationship of pride and attentional scope.This study totally has three experiments in which undergraduates are tested. In Experiment1there were45participants who were randomly divided into two groups and watched different videoes and then evaluated their emotions after the videos with the numbers0-6in four intervals——0minute,2minutes,4minutes and6minutes in the end of the videos. The results of the one-way ANOVA shows that there exists significant difference between the two videos in the four emotions——amusement, pride, hope and neutral state. Combined the averages we know that Video1can effectively induce pride while Video2can succesively induce a neutral state, otherwise the two target emotions can be maintained within two minutes.In Experiment2, we used the Navon letter task to measure the attentional scope in normal sitting postures which are not manipulated by the experimenters. In order to test the effects of pride on attentional scope, the participants in the pride team (n=19) and the neutral team (n=19) completed the attentioal task after the the videos. Two-factor repeated measures ANOVA shows that (1) participants tends to priority processing the global no matter what the emotions they are in;(2) participants both in pride and neutral state broaden their attentional scope.In Experiment3,101participants’sitting postures were manipulated with the introduction and three-factor mixed design ANOVA was used.Within the subjects variable is the type of pictures (global\local),and the variables between subjects are sitting postures(upright\slumped\normal) and the type of the videos (pride\neutral).The results shows that there are a significant interactive effection between sitting postures and the type of pictures, between sitting postures and type of the videos and among the the three independent variables. The results of simple effect analysis show that the participants under up-right sitting posture narrowed their attentional scope when they were proud while the participants under slump posture broadened their attentional scope when they were in neutral emotion. And the participants under slumpe posture broadened their attentional when they were in pride emotion while the participants who were in neutral emotion narrowed their attentional scope. The participants’attentional scope were broadened in both pride and neutral emotion when they sit normally. In a word, sitting postures have effects on the relationship between pride and attentional scope.