The Influence Of Money Situations On Implicit Interests

There is a unresolved question for human that why is money such a powerfultemptation. Money is the evaluation of individual contributions, and an importantcriterion for social status. Human was unwilling to face this repeatedly questioned fact.The researchers found that the influence of money on human consciousness containsprofound social and historical reasons. Realizing the role of money in recent researches,we found that the formation mechanism of its acting principle has a higher similaritywith optimism bias. Study aims to demonstrate the effect of money as a priming cluegenerating implicit optimism bias, verify the idea of money is closely linked withoptimism bias, and whether the money will reduce the individual assessment of theaccuracy of predictions, in order to tap the unique significance of idea of money inhuman behaviors.Used inquisit software, experiments were studied in IAT paradigms. Experiment1demonstrated the effect of money priming gives rise to a stronger implicit optimism bias;Experiment2showed no significant effect of different cognitive perspective ξactors,observersο on self-focusing of effect implicit optimistic bias, ruled out the potentialinterference factors; experiment3proved money priming group participants believe theyhave a stronger anti-interference ability. Through analysis, the study verified the moneypriming to alleviate the effect of cognitive resources consumption.The main conclusions of this study are as follows: First, the priming effect of moneyhas significant enhancement on optimism bias. Second, the priming effect of money canenhance self-efficacy, cognitive resources to buffer the process of consumption. Third,the high involved cognitive perspective has no significant effect on optimism bias, due tothe limited role of self-focusing process.