Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions

IF 1.7 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Motivation and Emotion Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI:10.1007/s11031-024-10073-2

Zhushi Fu, Anrun Zhu, Yufeng Wang, Yutao Lu, Cai Xing

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Abstract

Risk taking increases during the final round of a set of repeated risky decisions, a phenomenon known as the ending effect. Recent evidence suggests that the motivation to pursue an emotionally rewarding ending may account for this ending effect. This study tested this explanation using different task paradigms. Experiment 1 ruled out a financial motivational explanation for the ending effect. Specifically, when risk taking was only associated with emotional incentives without financial rewards, the ending effect remained significant. Experiment 2a demonstrated that the ending effect was robust after controlling for the relevant variables. Experiment 2b measured participants’ motivation using a visual reaction time task. The results revealed that perceiving an ending led participants to be more concerned with emotional satisfaction than financial rewards. These findings consistently support the notion that the perception of an approaching ending leads to an increase in emotional rather than financial motivation, and this increased emotional motivation could lead to increased risk-taking toward an ending. This study also ruled out the alternative explanation that the ending effect is driven by the need for financial rewards.

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追求情感上的满足会导致在最终决策中更多地承担风险

在一组重复的风险决策的最后一轮中，风险承担会增加，这种现象被称为结局效应。最近的证据表明，追求情感回报结局的动机可能是这种结局效应的原因。本研究利用不同的任务范式对这一解释进行了检验。实验 1 排除了经济动机对结局效应的解释。具体来说，当风险承担只与情感激励相关，而与经济回报无关时，结局效应仍然显著。实验 2a 表明，在控制了相关变量后，结束效应是稳健的。实验 2b 使用视觉反应时间任务测量参与者的动机。结果显示，感知到结局会使参与者更关注情感上的满足，而不是经济上的回报。这些结果一致支持这样一种观点，即感知到结局的临近会导致情感动机而非经济动机的增加，而情感动机的增加可能会导致对结局的冒险行为的增加。这项研究还排除了另一种解释，即结局效应是由对经济回报的需求驱动的。

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期刊介绍： Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior. Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion. Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles. However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make. Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.