The Effect Of Emotional Valence And Cognitive Resource Consumption On Perceived Agency

Sense of agency refers to the feeling of the subject caused by "I" to produce a certain action,including two levels of implicit and explicit,and its influencing factors are called agency clues.Sense of agency can ensure the degree of individual control over their behavior,which is often used as the cornerstone of social and legal systems.Understanding sense of agency plays an important role in the development of people and society.Therefore,sense of agency has become a research focus of psychologists in recent years.In this study,the dual-task paradigm was used to explore the influence of cognitive resource consumption and emotional valence on explicit agency.In experiment 1,the dual-task paradigm was used to investigate the effects of different cognitive resource consumption levels on the perceived agency of eastern individuals.The results showed that the perceived agency intensity of the low-cognitive resource consumption group was higher than that of the high-cognitive resource consumption group,which was similar to that of western individuals.emotional valence was added to experiment 2,and the influence of cognitive resource consumption on perceived agency under positive,negative and neutral emotions was investigated by emotional arousal method.The results showed that the explicit agency of the negative emotion group was lower than that of the positive and the neutral emotion group,and there was no difference between the latter two groups.Moreover,in the consistency condition,the integration effect of emotional valence,cognitive resource consumption and consistency and other agency cues is consistent with the effect of individual agency cues on individual explicit agency.In conclusion,these findings suggest that cognitive resource consumption as a common sense of agency leads to the different culture between the east and the west under the individual explicit agency is similar,and under the condition of consistency will be further influenced by individual emotion valence: positive emotion and neutral emotion under the cognitive resources consumption will be reduced,explicit agency will improve,negative emotions under the cognitive resources consumption will increase,explicit agency is reduced.