The Influence Of Buddhism On Human Emotion Reaction

It’s popular of Chinese to adore deities which are of great diversity. Because the influenceof different local cultural’s help, exotic and indigenous religions mixed together and came into aspecial phenomenon. The deities most people adored come from Buddhism, folk belief andTaoism. Since6century BC, Ancient Buddhism came to spread around the world, and developedinto different belief forms with local culture characteristics through communication andintegration. Saints in Buddhism be treated as the same role with other deities that work forprotecting and wish fulfillment. And that always makes people fell comfort or calm. Therefore,study1tried to explore folk Buddhism belief’s influence to people’ mood through2experiments.Experiment1used subliminal affective priming paradigm with Buddha’s picture as primingstimulus and facial pictures as target. Subjects’task was to judge wether the expression is oneor negative one. Experiment2used the same paradigm but different target. Subjects’s task was torating the value of the affective picture. The dates showed:first, It was worked using primingparadigm to arousing people’s Buddhist felling.Second, for students,studying in University,Buddhism had the internal consistency with positive facial and positive pictures, and the internalinconsistency with the negative pictures. We supposed that the Buddhism to folk is moregoodness than badness.However, the truly doctrine of Buddhism is far away from folks’ belief. The essence formBuddha is to find one’s true self. All scriptures and means were created around this heart to helppeople broke ignorance, return to innocence and find one’s true self.Among these means, Zenwas slightly better.Experiments in Study2used dot-probe task and value grading by SAM todiscuss the belief difference between Zen practicer and folks. The results shows, the grades forpositive pictures, negative pictures and neutral pictures made by Zen practicers were all closerto mid-value5than folks. That is Zen practice could help people enhance the emotional stabilityand enjoy a placid mental state.Through the two studies,this thesis using psychological methods made a preliminaryanalysis about Buddhism’s influence to emotion and applying a new view to the differencebetween folk Buddhist worship with Zen practice.