The Influence Of Lucky Experience On Risk Decision-Making:the Moderating Effect Of Lucky Belief

Luck usually has direct or indirect contact with objects to influence people ’s decision-making process.People gain a sense of luck by being exposed to specific lucky objects,lucky colors,or lucky numbers,and expect to make favorable decisions.This study focuses on how the perception of luck brought by the individual’s past luck experience affects their risk decision-making.By setting different situations,the individual’s past lucky experience is manipulated to examine how lucky experience affects risk decision-making through lucky perception.Since the lucky experience is usually accompanied by positive emotions,in addition to the neutral emotion control group,the positive emotion group induced by the unlucky situation is also added to the experiment as a control.In addition,the risk decision-making changes caused by the lucky experience may be affected by the individual ’s lucky belief,that is,the individual tends to think that luck is a continuous and stable personal trait or an energy that can flow and transfer.This study also examines how the individual ’s belief in luck moderates the impact of luck experience on risk decision-making.It is assumed that when individuals tend to agree that luck is a continuous trait,past luck experience will make individuals riskier in risk decision-making.Further,this study also explores whether there is a self-other difference in the impact of lucky experience on individual risk decision-making,that is,whether the impact of individual lucky experience on risk decision-making also appears in the scene of decision-making for others.This study examined the above issues through two experiments.Experiment 1used a single-factor between-subject design,with the independent variable as the emotional experience situation(lucky vs.happy vs.control),and the materials were selected to test the situational induction effect through pre-experiment 1a;the moderating variable is lucky belief.By measuring the lucky perception of the participants in the situation,it is found that the lucky perception can positively predict the degree of risk-taking,and the lucky belief has a significant moderating effect.When the individual has the belief of continuous luck,the higher the lucky perception experienced in the situation,the riskier in the subsequent risk decision-making.In experiment 2,a 3(emotional experience situation: lucky vs.happy vs.control)× 2(lucky belief : continuous lucky vs.luck conservation)× 2(decision-making object : self vs.others)between-subjects design was used to start the subjects ’ lucky belief on the basis of experiment 1.Experiment 2 found that under the decision-making task in the money field,the subjects in the continuous lucky group had a higher degree of risk-taking in the lucky situation than in the happy situation.When the decisionmaking object changed,the lucky conservation group had a higher degree of risk-taking when making decisions for others than for themselves.However,the opposite results appeared in the decision-making tasks in the field of life.