Can Contrast Effects Regulate Emotions A Follow-Up Study of Vital Loss Decisions 英文参考文献.docVIP

CanContrastEffectsRegulateEmotions?AFollow-Up StudyofVitalLossDecisions QiLi1.,YueQi2,3.,XianyunLiu4,JingLuo5,6* 1Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, InstituteofPsychology,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Beijing,China,3GraduateUniversityoftheChineseAcademyofSciences,Beijing,China,4AcademyofPsychology andBehaviour,TianjinNormalUniversity,Tianjin,China,5BeijingKeyLaboratoryofLearningandCognition,DepartmentofPsychology,CapitalNormalUniversity,Beijing, China,6KeyLaboratoryofMentalHealth,InstituteofPsychology,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Beijing,China Abstract Although many studies focus on the how contrast effects can impact cognitive evaluations, the question of whether emotionsareregulatedbysuchcontrasteffectsisstillthesubjectofconsiderabledebate,especiallyinthestudyofloss- relateddecisions.Toaddressthisgapintheliterature,wedesignedthreedecisionmakinglossconditions:(i)bothlossesare trivial(TT),(ii)onelossistrivialandtheotherlossisvital(TV),or(iii)onelossistrivialandtheotherlossisroutine(TR).In study 1, which compared the difference between the negative emotion ratings in TT and TV, we found that negative emotionswereaffectedbythecontrasteffects.Instudy2,whichcomparedthedifferencebetweentheimportanceoftrivial optionsinTTandTV,wefoundthatthecontrasteffectsdifferentiallychangedtheimportanceoftrivialoptionsinthetwo conditions,whichinturndown-regulatednegativeemotions.Instudy3,theimpactofdecisiondifficultywascontrolledby predeterminingtheitemstobelost.Inthisstudy,wefoundthat,whencomparingthedifferencesbetweenthenegative emotionsoflosingtrivialoptionsinTVandTR,thecontrasteffectsstillmodulatedtheloss-relatedemotions.Weconcluded that the contrast effects could down-regulate emotions. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that contrast effects can alleviate negative affect in loss-related decision making. This study will enrich and extend the literat