The Affect Of Emotion To The Decision-making Activities Under Uncertainty Situations

Objective : Exploring the effect of the explicit emotion and implicit emotion to risk decision-making,to understand the mechanism of action of different emotional state on the decision-making activities.Method:(1)Exploring the impact of the explicit emotions on the risk decision-making by inducing 106 individuals’ explicit fear and cheerful mood, and combining with the the Balloon Analogue Risk Task;(2)Exploring the impact of the implicit emotions on the risk decision-making by inducing 82 individuals’ implicit fear and cheer mood, and combining with the the Iowa Gambling Task.Result:(1)In the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, explicit emotion impacts the risk decision-making:the difference of BRAT value under the fear and neutral moods is significant(F(1,38)=4.5,p=0.04), the difference of BRAT value under the fear and neutral moods is significant(F( 1, 46)=4.37,p=0.042).(2) In the Iowa Gambling Task, implicit mood affect a number of factors about risk decision: on the decision performance, a significant difference was found in three types of emotions(F(2,76) = 4.22, p = 0.027),on the punishment frequency, three types of mood had extremely significant difference(F(2,76) = 6.085, p = 0.007),and the interaction is significant(F(2,76)=3.26,p=0.041).Conclusions:(1) In the Balloon Analogue Risk Task,we found the different types of emotion lead to the individuals make different decision,the pleasant emotions induced explicitly compared with neutral emotions promoted the individuals tend to be risk seeking when making decisions,but fear induced explicitly promoted the individuals tend to be risk aversion;(2) compared with the neutral emotions condition, whether induced the implicit pleasant emotions or implicit fear emotions,individual decisions are all inclined to be risk aversion.(3) the influence of explicit or implicit emotions’ characteristics to individual risk decision making is different.