Different Emotion Regulation Strategies Of Emotion On Attention Network

Since always, psychologists have made a lot of researches on emotion and attention. Now there are many research modes and stimulate materials of affective priming. People always make use of a word, graphics, music or movie to cause the emotional reaction of others. Scholars have also made some progress on the research of emotion and attention. For example, people explore the relation of positive and negative emotion with attention, to promoting or interference, to note that the resources of space and time distribution and so on. Throughout the study, authors tend to consider attention as a whole, or a quality. In this article we use attention network test of Fan to study the influence of emotion on attention easily. So in this article our purpose is to study the relation of different emotion and attention network test.The experimental approach to the emotion state, emotion regulation and attention network were studied, specifically:In studyⅠ, we use a design of 3 (emotion state:positive, negative and neutral emotion state) x 3 (attention network:alerting, orienting and executive control), using variance analysis, examined the influence of different emotion states on attention network. In studyⅡ, we use a design of 2 (emotion regulation strategies:cognitive reappraisal and express expression suppression) x 3 (attention network:alerting, orienting and executive control),using variance analysis, examined the influence of different emotion regulation in negative emotion state, including that emotion regulation strategies is bet between-subject factor, attention network is within-subject factor, and the reaction time is independent factor.The result of studyingⅠis that:the main effect of emotion, the main effect of attention network and the interaction of emotion and attention network are significant. The sample effect of emotion is that different emotion state is significant on alerting. The result of pairwise comparisons is that subjects react more quickly by negative affective priming. Subject of different Gender exist significant difference on attention network. The difference is significant on alerting, but no significant on orienting and executive control. The result of studyingⅡis that: different emotional regulation strategies produce different effects on attention network, and exist significant difference on alerting. Subjects, using cognitive reappraisal, have a higher efficiency on alerting. Also study indicates that boys are good at using cognitive reappraisal, and girls are good at using expression suppression.