Implicit Happiness Characteristics And Impact On The Study Of Emotional Processing

According to the Environmental Contact Model of IAT Effect which put forwardby Karpinski and Hilton,, the test of IAT is not to explain the individual’s agreementlevel for objective things, but reveal the degree of association between individuals andthings that in his/her life environment. Generally speaking, Implicit Well-being is theindividual’s unconscious or automatic assessment of their life, and the impression forpositive and negative life experiences of their past life which individuals cannotdistinguished implicitly or accurately. The research takes college students as objects,including three experiments which exam the structure of Implicit Well-being, theinfluent factors of IWB and its differences to the emotion processing respectively.（1）The results of experiment1showed: There does’t exist separation ofcognition and emotion components in the Implicit Well-being. Meanwhile, TheImplicit Well-being shows the positive response bias. That is to say, The ImplicitWell-being may have its own influence factors and structure.（2）In the experiment2, the objects through paired identify positive-selfvocabulary of Implicit Well-being, and try to activate relevant semantical setting andvocabulary system, enhance the connection between positive vocabulary and self,thereby raise the Implicit Well-being effect effectively.（3）The experiment3analysis the ERP result of emotional processing, we foundthat there are neurophysiologic mechanism differences between high and low ImplicitWell-being individuals’ emotional processing. The LPP analysis found: When doingnegative emotional processing, the LPP of low implicit objects is lower than highimplicit objects, it may suggest that the low implicit individuals are more effectivewhen doing negative emotional processing; while the differences are not remarkablein the positive emotional processing of low and high implicit objects. Besides, wefound (in component analysis) that the low implicit objects causing more obvious3component than high implicit objects in the positive emotional processing, which the author think it may because the low implicit individuals experience more negativethings and less positive things in life, so they are lack of the character informationlibrary related to the positive emotional cognitive activity.Finally, No matter the research of Implicit Well-being or Explicit SubjectiveWell-bing, the goal is all for humans’ happiness. They should supplementary to eachother and service to the theme of happiness together.