Different Motives Note Range Approaching Positive Emotions

In our daily life,we will sufer to a large of stimulus,so we form and develop a cognitive mechanism which was used for processing stimulus through the highly selective selection and processing in order to further processing.People will exibit their perference in their survival environment,so the environment plays the function of the emotional state,namely,the information that people payed attention is influenced by their emotional state. So,the relations about of emotion and attention cause wide attention and research.Previous research indicated that negative emotions narrow attention,positive emotions broaden attention. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotion of Fredrickson is a good theoretical foundation and evidence. She thinks that positive emotions,for exemple joy,interest,and love can broaden individual's momentary thought-action, which in turn build individual's personal resources,ranging from physical resource,intellectual resources to social resources in order to answer future life and challenge.When people are exposed to negative emotions,people's attention is narrowed. Special behavior was caused in special circumstances,because the narrowing of the scope is benefit for the survival of the individual and race.When people are in positive emotion,people's attention is broaden,because they can break through certain restriction and think some new ideals, enhancing individual cognitive flexibility. Ashby and Isen's dopaminergic theory of positive affect thinks that positive emotion can enhance the release of dopamine in anterior cingulate and increase the level of dopamine in the brain and improve individual cognitive flexibility.This conclusion that positive emotions broaden attention has been confirmed by a large of studies.But in recent years,some researchers integrate motivation dimension into the research about positive emotion and attention,and think that the relation between positive emotion and attention is influenced by the lever of approach motivation,namely, high approach-motivated positive emotions broaden attention, low approach-motivated positive emotions narrow attention.what is the true relationship between positive emotion and attention?Whether their relation is got further confirmed and verified or not? Whether their relationship is influenced by other factors or not?What is the neural physiological mechanism between them?This needs further research.Based on this,this reaearch uses behavior experiment and eye tracking which has the advantage of time accurate location in order to deeply explore the relationship between approached-motivation positive emotion and attention. The Experiment one uses behavior experiment to prove that different approach motivations have different effects on attention.Thisexperiment uses emotional pictures and Global-local task to reveal their relationship;The Experiment two also uses emotional pictures and Global-local task,with eye tracking technology to further validate the motivational dimension model of emotions.The results of the study show that(1) relative to the scenery pictures and re al pictures,delicious pictures can induce high approached-motivation positive emot ion.(2) relative to neutral group and low approached-motivation group,high approa ched-motivation group has fewer times in global task and more times in local ta sk,namely,it indicates that high approached-motivation positive emotions narrow at tention,however,there is no difference in global times and local times in neutral group and low approached-motivation positive emotions.(3)relative to neutral grou p and low approached-motivation group,high approached-motivation positive emoti on group has lower times in global fixation duration,gaze duration percentage> v iew times and view times percentage and has more times in local fixation times. however,there is no difference between neutral group and low approached-motivat ion group in these four idexes.(4)This research proves that high approached-motiv ation positive emotions narrow attention, low approached-motivation positive emot ions broaden attention. Of course,this conclusion needs to be explored furtherly wi th different methods.In conclusion, this research uses behavior experiment and eye-tracking to confirm the motivational dimension model of emotion,and firstly to test research hypothesis with eye-tracking. It provides some evidence for the motivational dimension model of emotion and provide some support for future research.It also enriches and develops this model. In addition,this research finds that high approached-motivation positive emotions narrow attention,but the conclusion that low approached-motivation positive emotions broaden attention has fewer evidence,its potential influence factors and mechanism are needed.