Pastwa Maciej W, Imbir Kamil K
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 30;10:959. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00959. eCollection 2019.
A positive mood is thought to accompany performing a risk-taking tendency, for instance in games of chance or gambling. This study concerns the impact of emotional stimuli presented in a subliminal manner on the riskiness of decisions made in a game of chance. The heights of stakes called in the game were adopted as the measure of risk taken. Special simulation of a real game of chance, based on coin tossing, was used for this experiment. The stimuli displayed subliminally were words differing in valence (three levels: negative, neutral, and positive). We expected that positive valence would provoke the riskiness of the subsequent decision. The main effect of the valence observed was that the subjects in positive word conditions bet higher stakes than in neutral and negative conditions. Positive emotions influenced the riskiness of decisions made by the subjects, which confirmed the set hypothesis. The results of the study, in addition to their theoretical implications, may have practical meaning due to realistic simulation of popular games of chance.
人们认为积极情绪会伴随着冒险倾向的表现，例如在博彩游戏或赌博中。本研究关注以阈下方式呈现的情绪刺激对在博彩游戏中所做决策的风险程度的影响。游戏中所叫赌注的高低被用作所承担风险的衡量指标。本实验采用了基于抛硬币的真实博彩游戏的特殊模拟。阈下呈现的刺激是效价不同的词语（三个水平：消极、中性和积极）。我们预期积极效价会引发后续决策的冒险性。观察到的效价的主要效应是，处于积极词语条件下的受试者所下的赌注高于中性和消极条件下的受试者。积极情绪影响了受试者所做决策的风险程度，这证实了设定的假设。该研究结果除了具有理论意义外，由于对流行博彩游戏的现实模拟，可能还具有实际意义。
