The Research About Cognitive Narrowing Of The Undergraduates Being In Love

In the theoretical research, the article analyses the essence and structure of the cognitive narrowing of the undergraduates being in love based on the existing academic achievements, and considers it as a cognitive phenomenon that the undergraduates being in love focus their attention on love but neglect their learning and relationships. The cognitive narrowing of the undergraduates being in love contains two dimensions: learning narrowing and interpersonal narrowing.In the first part of the empirical research, we adopt the self-made questionnaire about the cognitive narrowing of the undergraduates being in love for investigation.461 undergraduates are surveyed. The results show that the participates' average scores on each dimension and the whole questionnaire are between"not too agreeable"and "general agreeable", this means they don't think love has much effect on learning and relationships, and the level of their cognitive narrowing is not serious.In the second part of the empirical research, we use Stroop task paradigm to further prove the existence of cognitive narrowing of the undergraduates being in love. The results show that the experimental group has attentional bias on the words about love, and the control group has attentional bias on words about love and learning. While for the words about interpersonal relation,they don't exist attentional bias. This means students being in love pay their attention on love and don't concern the things about learning and interpersonal relation. For the students who had never been in love,they care about love as well as learning,but they don't concern the interpersonal relation.In a word, the cognitive narrowing of undergraduates being in love is existed. It's just that the level of their cognitive narrowing is not serious.