Mei Dongmei, He Shasha, Li Liman Man Wai, Zhu Yiyi
School of Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China.
Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 15;12:736353. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.736353. eCollection 2021.
The current research examined the influence of subjective loss on financial risk-taking tendency and negative emotional experience through inducing the experience of subjective loss in auction scenarios. In Study 1, we found that the subjective loss experience (compared to no-loss experience) in an auction scenario induced greater financial risk propensity, especially in gambling, greater negative emotion, and greater decision regret. In addition, we found that the subjective loss experience induced stronger negative emotion but less risk propensity in investment than the actual loss experience did, but these two types of loss did not yield a difference in risk propensity in gambling in Study 2. These results implicate that subjective loss is a distinct experience from no-loss and actual loss experiences, which is reflected by the degree of associated emotional experience and subsequent risk-taking propensity. The current research highlights the complex psychological processes of the experience of loss in decision-making contexts.
当前的研究通过在拍卖场景中诱导主观损失体验，考察了主观损失对财务冒险倾向和负面情绪体验的影响。在研究1中，我们发现拍卖场景中的主观损失体验（与无损失体验相比）会引发更高的财务风险倾向，尤其是在赌博方面，还会引发更强烈的负面情绪和更多的决策后悔。此外，我们发现主观损失体验在投资中引发的负面情绪比实际损失体验更强，但风险倾向更低，不过在研究2中，这两种损失在赌博的风险倾向上没有差异。这些结果表明，主观损失是一种与无损失和实际损失体验不同的体验，这体现在相关情绪体验的程度和随后的冒险倾向中。当前的研究突出了决策情境中损失体验的复杂心理过程。
