Death Highlights The Impact Of Intertemporal Decision Making On Money Outcomes

Terror management theory is that when individuals face death anxiety,In order to alleviate the anxiety,individual instinctly develop cultural anxiety buffers,to realize self-protection.So when people face of death,the individual's thoughts,attitudes,and behavior changes.Money in the field of inter-temporal decisions are for people in different time point weigh the costs and benefits,and make judgment and choice of decisions.Death highlights,in the face of immediate small amount and delayed big amount,how people make choices and decisions? Existing research shows that highlights after death,people demand for money,in order to get more money,can wait.But existing research has not been deeply discussed death highlights people money and time to weigh the impact.This study aims to examine death highlights inter-temporal decisions affect the result of the people's money,to ascertain the people's preference under mortality salience.There are three experiments in this paper.Study 1 is highlighted on the threshold of the classic death under control,individual mortality salience effect in intertemporal decision,adopt single factor(priming type: mortality salience/control group)were between design of experiment,the dependent variable is delay discount rate.Using the questionnaire survey to preliminarily explore the effect of mortality salience on inter-temporal decision delay discount rate of the result of the money.Study 2 is to discuss that how mortality salience will influence inter-temporal decision choice tendency to the result of the money,the influence of using money choices and money allocated,two experimental paradigm,the money choice task is 2(priming type: mortality salience/control)x 3(time: 1month/3 months / 6 months)x 3(money: 1000 R,3000 RMB,5000 RMB)of mixed experimental design,the dependent variable is the choice of the preferences of the subjects.Money allocated tasks is priming type(mortality salience/control)set of single factor experiment design,the dependent variable is assigned to three purposes(direct cost,short-term savings,long-term savings).Study 3 is further to verify the two assumptions,inspection inter-temporal mortality salience effect the validity of decision making.Adopts subliminal mortality salience manipulation method,inter-temporal decision task also includes the choice of money and money distribution,two kinds of tasks,experiment design is the same to study 2.Results show that:(1)Under mortality salience,people of inter-temporal decision delay discount rate significantly less than the TV control group,mortality salience has a significant influence on people's intertemporal decision-making the amount that people tend to choose large delay option.(2)Mortality salience influences people's preference of inter-temporal decision,no matter how big or small the amount of money,people tend to choose a larger amount of delay options,people prefer the money,the demand for money.In the money allocated task,Mortality salience group and control group in the long-term savings and short-term distribution exist significant difference on the amount of savings,and there is no difference on cost directly.(3)the subliminal mortality salience manipulation method also found people money preference,found that the distribution of significant differences,the two groups highlighted death group and control group in terms of direct cost and long-term savings amount is significant difference of distribution.