The Effect Of Autistic Traits On Impact Bias And Its Mechanism

Emotion plays an important role in human social activities.Emotional prediction of future events affects individual decision making.The choices that individuals expect to make can bring themselves more positive emotional experiences and less negative emotional experiences,but they often fail to do so.People often overestimate the future emotional experience and produce impact bias,that is,there will be a bias between the emotional experience brought about by the event after the decision and the affective forecasting during the decision.The existence of this bias phenomenon has been verified by different experimental situations,but domestic scholars have seldom explored the phenomenon of impact bias in the real learning and life situations of college students.And through the system of real situation and experimental situation to verify the emotional prediction deviation is very few.Whether the universality of emotional prediction deviation phenomenon is affected by the environmental difference between the real situations and the created experimental situations need further verification.In addition,in the current studies,the influence of individual differences on impact bias has become one of the research focuses.The personality characteristics of autistic traits,which are regarded as the sixth personality trait,affect the individual’s emotional processing ability.Therefore,this study will verify whether college students generally have impact bias in real and experimental situations,and on this basis,explore whether autistic traits have an effect on impact bias and how different levels of autistic traits affect the generation of impact bias.This study selected college students from a university in Fujian Province as the subjects,and used college student autistic trait questionnaires,self-made affective forecasting items,and affective experience items as measurement tools.The study 1 used the 2019-2020 academic year comprehensive evaluation as the research situation,aiming to explore whether college students have impact bias in the real learning and life situations,and whether the level of autistic traits affects college students’ impact bias.The study 2 used the Employee Aptitude Survey(EAS)as an experimental situation to verify whether college students also have impact bias in the experimental situation and through the effects of two intervention methods,defocusing exercise and adaptive exercise,to examine the mechanism by which the level of autistic traits affects the impact bias.The results of this study are as follows:(1)In the real situation and the experimental situation,the college student group has the impact bias.(2)In the real situation and the experimental situation,there was a significant negative correlation between autistic traits and positive impact bias in college students.(3)In the real situation,the impact bias of high autistic traits was significantly lower than that of low autistic traits.In the experimental situation,the impact bias of high autistic traits was significantly lower than that of low autistic traits in the control group.(4)The effect of defocusing exercise on the positive impact bias was moderated by the level of autistic traits,and only affected the low level of autistic traits.The influence of adaptive exercise on the positive impact bias of college students was not regulated by the level of autistic traits.Synthesizing the above results,whether in the real situation or in the experimental situation,the college students have impact bias.Autistic traits have a negative effect on college students’ positive impact bias by influencing the positive affective forecasting,that is,the higher the autistic trait level,the smaller the positive impact bias.Autistic traits influence impact bias.The autistic trait affects the impact bias of college students through focusing illusion.