The Influence Of Luck Superstition On Risk Decision Of College Students

Risk decision-making,as a kind of uncertain decision-making,has always attracted the attention of scholars in various fields due to its own possible negative results.With the gradual evolution of absolute rationality,bounded rationality,and ecological rationality,the tasks can be divided into dynamic and static categories.How superstition,as a common irrational phenomenon in daily life,affects risk decision-making is a problem that deserves widespread attention.For this reason,this study designed two studies and three experiments to investigate the influence of superstitions on risk decision-making.Study 1 explores the current situation of superstitions among college students.Use the paradigm of implicit association test to explore the implicit connection of college students' superstitions about good and bad.It turns out that college students do connect things that represent auspiciousness with positive words,and things that represent bad luck with negative words,showing a significant implicit effect.And this implicit effect is not affected by age,gender and profession.Study 2 explores how superstitions of good and bad affect the influence of college students' risk decision-making.Experiment 2A is to explore the influence of good and bad superstitions on dynamic risk decision-making,using simulated balloon missions.A mixed experimental design of 2(good and bad background:auspicious background VS bad background)× 2(feedback type: positive feedback VS negative feedback)is adopted,where the feedback type is the internal variable of the subject.The results show that both the auspicious background and the type of feedback have a significant impact on risk decision-making,and the interaction is significant.The specific manifestation is that when receiving negative feedback,college students in auspicious background will be more adventurous,while college students in a bad background will be more conservative.Experiment 2B explored the influence of good or bad start on static risk decision-making,and applied the risk situation questionnaire.A mixed experimental design of 2(good and bad start: good and bad start VS bad start)× 2(profit and loss situation: gain and loss situation VS loss situation),in which the gain and loss situation is the internal variable of the subject.The results show that both the good and bad start and the gain and loss situation have a significant influence on the risk decision,and the interaction is significant.The specific manifestation is that in the loss situation,the good start will make the college students more risky,and the bad start will make the college students more conservative.Conclusion:(1)College students generally have a stable psychology of good and bad superstition;(2)Good and bad superstitions have a significant influence on both static and dynamic risk decisions,and show consistency.The specific manifestation is that students will be more risky when making decisions under the conditions of auspicious starting,and will be more conservative when making decisions under the conditions of strong starting;(3)Participants will be affected by superstitions of good and bad to make risk decisions,and this effect will be stronger when they are in a loss situation or receive negative feedback.