The Effect Mechanism Of Different Incidental Positive Emotions On College Students’ Risk Decision-Making

In our daily life,we are always faced with a variety of choices and make decisions.People will make different decisions in different situations,showing risk seeking or risk aversion.Therefore,what are the factors that influence risk decision-making and how to make rational decision-making have always been the focus of research.The influence of accidental emotion on risk decision-making has always been concerned.Although scholars at home and abroad have discussed it,no unified conclusion has been reached.Through literature review,it has been found that social distance and luck beliefs also affect risk decision-making.Therefore,this paper also have explored the differences between individuals with different luck beliefs in making decisions for themselves and others under different incidental positive emotions.This paper consisted three experiments.The experiment 1 used a single factor design to examine the impact of accidental positive emotions of risk decision-making.The experiment 2 used two factor mixed experimental design to explore the effects of accidental positive emotions and social distance on risk decision-making.The experiment 3 used three factor mixed experimental design to explore the influence of luck beliefs on risk decision-making and the interaction of accidental positive emotion,social distance and luck beliefs.College students were recruited online and tested with luck belief scale,autobiographical emotional memory task,emotional intensity rating scale and simple gambling task.Through statistical methods such as the ANOVA and simple effect test,the influence of accidental positive emotion on college students’ risk decision-making have been probed.The results are as follows:(1)College students with happy,proud and angry emotions have had higher risk seeking than those with calm emotion.College students with proud emotion have had higher risk preference than those with happy emotion.(2)College students with happy,proud and angry emotion have had higher risk preference than those with calm emotion when they made decisions for themselves.The college students with proud emotion have had higher risk preference than those with happy and angry emotion when they made decisions for others.(3)The risk decision-making of college students with good luck belief have been significantly higher than those with bad luck belief and rejection of belief in luck,and the risk decision-making of college students with rejection of belief in luck have been significantly higher than those with bad luck beliefs.College students with good luck belief have made significantly higher risk decisions in pride emotion than in happy emotion.The conclusions are as follows:(1)The risk preference of college students under different incidental positive emotional states have been significantly different;(2)The interaction between luck belief,accidental positive emotion and social distance have affect college students’ risk decision making.