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Estimation Strategy Selection Is Modulated by Snapshot Emotional Priming, but Not Math Anxiety

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  • Chuanlin Zhu

    (School of Educational Science, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China)

  • Xinyi Zhao

    (School of Educational Science, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China)

  • Xinhua Han

    (School of Educational Science, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China)

  • Yun Wang

    (School of Foreign Languages, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China)

  • Dianzhi Liu

    (School of Education, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China)

  • Wenbo Luo

    (Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China
    Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dalian 116029, China)

Abstract

The present study explored the role of snapshot emotional priming and math anxiety in estimation strategy selection. Participants were asked to complete a two-digit multiplication estimation task (e.g., 34 × 67) under explicit (Experiment 1) and implicit (Experiment 2) snapshot emotional priming conditions by freely choosing to use DU (down-up, e.g., doing 30 × 70 = 2100 for 34 × 67) or UD (up-down, e.g., doing 40 × 60 = 2400 for 34 × 67) strategies to arrive as close as possible to the correct answer. In Experiment 1, individuals’ estimation performance was positively influenced by explicit happy priming (shorter RT (reaction time)), while not affected by explicit fear priming. In Experiment 2, individuals’ estimation ACC (accuracy) when using the UD strategy was negatively affected by both implicit happy and fear priming, but their RT when using DU and UD strategies was positively impacted by implicit happy priming. In both experiments, the correlations between math anxiety and estimation performance (ACC, RT, and strategy selection adaptivity) was not significant. The present study suggests that fear priming was not always detrimental to individuals’ estimation performance, and happy priming did not always universally improve individuals’ estimation performance. Additionally, estimation strategy selection was not influenced by math anxiety.

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  • Chuanlin Zhu & Xinyi Zhao & Xinhua Han & Yun Wang & Dianzhi Liu & Wenbo Luo, 2022. "Estimation Strategy Selection Is Modulated by Snapshot Emotional Priming, but Not Math Anxiety," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(16), pages 1-15, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:16:p:10268-:d:891460
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