The Effect Of Positive Emotion On Attention

The effect of positive emotion on individual is one of the hot research today. Emotion has a cross-cultural and geographical consistency, so the study of emotions has broad applicability. Lots of studies have shown that emotions can affect a person's attentional processes. Although numerous studies have shown that emotions could affect the individual's attention, but the specific results and impact mechanisms are remain inconclusive.This research designed two experiments, the subjects are 66 university students, using video evoked their emotions, use different types of the target retrieval tasks in order to examine the impact of positive mood to individual attention and conversion retrieval speed. At the same time different faces picture as irrelevant information to be presented to the participants by the final recognition task to investigate whether positive emotions will promote the subjects of irrelevant information note.The study included two experiments. Experiment 1 designed a repeat task to examine the influence of positive emotions on attention retrieval speed, and using the neutral picture as the background to examine whether there will be difference between two group when under low cognitive load state. Experiment 2 designed a switch task and is divided into three groups, neutral group, positive groups A and B, neutral group and positive groups A use neutral face as background, group B uses a different emotional faces as a background image, in order to verify the hypothesis significance and emotional consistency hypothesis.The results showed that: Positive emotions can improve the speed of retrieval of individual attention. Subjects cognitive load does not affect the recognition of neutral irrelevant information, the results support the hypothesis significance.