The Risk Preference Impact Of Positive And Negative Emotion On Self-other Decision-making

Due to the limited knowledge and experience of the people,decision makers often need to solicit the opinions of others or ask someone to make a decision for themselves directly,when they face the more important or complicated decision problem.In recent decades,many scholars have discussed the self-other differences in order to conclude the reasons and mechanism of self-other differences.The researchers made a lot of research on psychological distance and emotion.This research subjects are college students,and it used video clips which can induce pleasure or fear and interpersonal situation questionnaire(translation)and personal safety situation questionnaire(translation).At last,The data was analyzed using SPSS.This research includes three preliminary experiments and two formal experiment.Preliminary experiment is to test whether policymakers' role has the remarkable difference in interpersonal situations;preliminary experiment 2 it is to test whether policymakers' role has the remarkable difference in the safety situation;preliminary experiment 3 is to screen two films which can induce pleasant emotions and fears.wo formal experiment discussed emphatically the risk preference impact of pleasure and fear on self-other decision-making.The results show that(1)Results show that when the risk seeking is more valuable,emotional state and policymakers role have main effect significantly,and there is interaction.(2)Pleasant emotions can induce stronger risk seeking than fear.For others decisions showed stronger risk seeking than self decisions.(3)When risk aversion is more valuable,emotional state and policymakers role have main effect significantly,and there is interaction.(4)Fear evoked stronger risk aversion more than pleasant emotions,for others decisions showed stronger risk aversion than self decisions.