Influence Of Emotional Valence And Regulation Strategy On Pupils’ Decision-making

There are two main research paradigms of research field on decision-making: based onprocessing approach and based on result approach. The study included two experiments toexplore the emotional valence and emotional regulation strategies impact on the pupilsinformation processing for decision-making and the result of decision-making.The first experiment uses movie clips to induce positive valence emotion and negativevalence emotion. Pre-training and experimental instruction are used to instruct pupils to adoptcognitive reappraisal or expression suppression strategy. Information bulletin board is used tosimulate decision-making tasks in daily life. The purpose of this test is to find out thatemotional valence and emotional regulation strategy work on decision-making informationprocessing. The result of the first test shows:(1)Negative emotion makes pupils use bottom-up processing pattern and analyticstrategy mostly. Positive emotion elicits more top-bottom processing pattern makes themmostly use heuristic strategy. Therefore, positive emotion is better than negative emotion inthe perspective of decision-making information processing.(2)Expression suppression strategy makes pupils to use bottom-up processing patternmostly, while cognitive reappraisal strategy elicits more top-bottom processing pattern andmakes them mostly use heuristic strategy. Additional analysis shows that there is no cleardifference no matter which strategy pupils with positive strategy use, but cognitive reappraisalstrategy is better than expression suppression strategy for pupils with negative emotion.The second test is based on the foundation of the first experiment. It adds riskdecision-making task and explores how the emotional valence and emotional regulationstrategy work on the result of decision-making. The result of the second test shows:(3)Different emotional valence has completely different influence on riskdecision-making. Positive emotion elicits risk appetite while negative emotion elicits riskaversion.(4)There is no clear difference on pupils with different regulation strategy in riskpropensity. Combined with emotional valence, we know no matter which strategy pupils withpositive strategy use, there is no clear difference. However, if they use cognitive reappraisalstrategy, pupils with negative emotion can choose proper risk as shrewdly as pupils withpositive emotion, and constructively get more interest at last. If pupils with negative emotionuse expression suppression strategy, they choose to avoid the risk blindly.