The Effects Of Anticipated Emotion And Time Perception On Intertemporal Choice

We named the mental process as intertemporal choice that people make all kinds of judgment and choice after weighing the costs and benefits happened in different time in the future.Many factors may affect intertemporal choice,for instance:time, measuring situation, stress state, emotion,intelligence and so on,this paper aims to study intertemporal choice, discussiong the effects of different antici- pated emotion and time perception on delayed discount task.This paper chooses the tradeoff results of individuals’ about the characteristics of choosing costs and benifits in different time intervals to be discussed, and the research develop s from two points of view: expected emotion and time perception, it has positive significance on the delay discount mechanism research,and the decision-making related research field is also a kind of rich and development. Also, this paper chooses different time perception levels individuals as the participants, to research the characteris- tics of intertemporal decision-making in different conditions, which can help decision-makers handle daily life decision-makingpractice better, the research has strong practical significance.This study will choose college students as subjects, to complete the study of two experiments.StudyⅠ:The classic intertemporal choice task paradigm is used to test the influence of anticipated emotion and time perception on intertemporal choice.Study Ⅱ:The choice titration procedure is used to complete this study,trying to repeat verification experiment results through different experimen- tal paradigm.Conclusions are as follows:(1)The effects of anticipated emotion on delayed discount task have significant differences;(2)The effects of time perception on delayed discount task have significant differences;(3)At different expected emotional state,low time perception, compared to high time perception,its delay discount rate is lower.Through the discussion and analysis, draw the conclusions as follows:(1)Anticipated emotion will affect the individual choice of delayed reward;(2) Time distance will affect individual costestimate,then affect the choice of delayed reward;(3)At different anticipated emotion states,individual time perception will affect the delayed discounting rate.