| People are social animals that live in groups.For a group,its biggest goal is how to make good decisions and maximize its benefits.From the perspective of motivation,this artical tries to apply regulatory focus theory and regulary fit to the field of decision-making.When groups pursue different goals,they must think about that whether the decision is the best one.Therefore,they may not experience affective forecast bias and not feel bad to themselves.Higgens proposed that promotion focus pay more attention to positive outcomes,and adversely,prevention orientation pay more attention to nagetive outcomes.Howere,little research explore their effects on affective forecast bias in group contexts.In this study,fifty-three-person college students participated in this study and chose proposals which go towards the destination or stay to wait for rescue based on the“stranded in the desert”scenario.This study employed single factor(regulatory focus:promotion/prevention focus)between-subject design to explored that group polarization mediates the effects of regulatory focus on affective forecast in group situation.The results show that:(1)the effect of regulatory focus on affective forecast bias was significant: groups of promotion focus tended to have bigger affective forecast bias than the prevention focus groups;(2)group polarization mediates the effects of regulatory focus on affective forecast in group situation.The second experiment,employed single factor(regulatory fit: fit/ not fit)between-subjects design to explored that group polarization mediates the effects of regulatory fit on affective forecast in group situation.The results showed that:(1)the effect of regulatory fit on affective forecast bias was significant: groups of regulatory fit tended to have bigger affective forecast bias than the other groups;(2)group polarization mediates the effects of regulatory fit on affective forecast bias in group situation.In the end,this paper summarizes the limitations of extension of the research results,as well as the new research directions. |
