On The Influence Of Money On Prosocial Behaviors, And Cognitive Neuroscience Research Of NegativeEmotion Intensity Perceptibility

In our life, money is necessary. We can realize our dreams and fulfill our needs with the help of money. Thus money plays a powerful role. However, what effects can money have on human behavior? This is a debatable problem. Some people believe in the negative effects that money have on human behavior, arguing that money is the culprit that ruins inter-personal relationships. But there are some people think that money has positive effects on human mentality, because money can improve our motives through awards and intensity. In this thesis, I apply the ERP and the mental priming techniques, active the thoughts about money when between subjects are unaware of the research. I take the money potential as an unconscious caution on between subjects, in order to study the influence of money on prosocial behaviors, and cognitive neuroscience research of negative emotion intensity perceptibility.My first study tries to find the influence of money on prosocial behaviors, and the second tries to explain cognitive neuroscience research of negative emotion intensity perceptibility. All the between subjects are healthy college students, and the stimulus used are from Chinese Affective Picture System. My findings are listed as follows:1. The between subjects who have received the money potential are more inclined to group activity.2. Compared with the non-money activated group, in the first research, the money activated between subjects tends to choose group activity than individual activity, which produces a positive ERP wave form. These between subjects are in a time window between 500-650ms. According to the topographic map of differential waveform, it has a stronger prime in left front part of human brain; And in further dipole pegging analysis, it mainly originates from left upper brain, which perhaps prove that money prime is relevant to ego prime.3. Money prime can indeed influence humans' reaction to different emotion potency, and its influence runs through all the prime process. Its influence proves to be the strengthening of orienting reflection and attention direction in early stage, as well as the reflection decision, evaluation and inhibition in terminal stage. In the second study, compared with the neutral prime, the between subjects who has received the money prime are more sensitive to negative emotions, thus they pay more attention to them. Compared with neutral prime conditions, money prime may lead to more memory affiliation and relate to the collection of more long-lasting memory and experience, thus produces more emotion relations.In summary, money prime may influence interpersonal dependence:The between subjects who have received the money potential are more inclined to group activity, while those who have received the neutral prime not show this intention. This helps to prove that money prime is relevant to ego prime. Money prime can indeed influence humans' reaction to different emotion potency, and its influence runs through all the activation. The influence proves to the strengthening of orienting reflection and attention direction in early stage, as well as the reflection decision, evaluation and inhibition in terminal stage. The between subjects who has received the money prime are more sensitive to negative emotions, thus they pay more attention to them.