Effects Of Emotion And Task Types On Risk Decision Making

In recent years, the effect of emotion on decision making was noticed by more and more people. In the decision making research, the influence of emotion had already become the research focal point. There are two research paradigms for the study on the effect of emotion on decision making.The first one is based-valence approach. This approach regards the valence as the most important factor to influence decision making. Emotions are divided into positive emotions and passive emotions, then study the influence to decision making respectively. The second one is based on appraisal tendency approach. Divide emotions into positive emotions and passive emotions is rough and not very precise. Based on appraisal tendency approach think that people appraise event in 6 dimensions. The differences of emotions are caused by different appraises in 6 dimensions. The appraisal can disseminate after the emotion event, thus forms one kind of appraisal tendency to affect people's decision-making. The appraisal tendency is the primary factor. This study based on appraisal tendency approach. The purpose of this research is: (1) when one emotion appears stick with another, the former boost up the latter or weaken the latter? (2) When the emotion intensity change, the emotion change has what kind of influence to the different tasks?The present article consists of three experiments, each experiment consists of two statuses. Each status consists of two groups, each group consists of 30 participants. The participants were all freshman. We adopted 2×2 experimental design. The emotion was inducted by playing videos. we took ANOVA analysis and chi-square test as the statistical analysis.The main conclusions are as follows:1. In control dimension, regardless of being different (one emotion is human control, the other one is situational control) or same (both human control or both situational control), when around two emotions appear one after another, the front emotion can weaken the following emotion.2. Emotion and decision-making task type joint influenced Risk tendency. Specifically speaking: (1) when control dimension was human control, regarding the identical emotion, in the gambling decision-making, the high strength emotion group was tried to try compared to the low intensity emotion group to take risk, but in the interactive decision-making, the high strength emotion group was tried to try conservatively compared to the low intensity emotion group; (2) when control dimension was situational control, regarding the identical emotion, in the gambling decision-making, the high strength emotion group was tried to try conservatively compared to the low intensity emotion group, but in the interactive decision-making, the high strength emotion group was tried to try compared to the low intensity emotion group to take risk.