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

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 con...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Chuanlin, Zhao, Xinyi, Han, Xinhua, Wang, Yun, Liu, Dianzhi, Luo, Wenbo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9408359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36011903
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610268
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author Zhu, Chuanlin
Zhao, Xinyi
Han, Xinhua
Wang, Yun
Liu, Dianzhi
Luo, Wenbo
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Zhao, Xinyi
Han, Xinhua
Wang, Yun
Liu, Dianzhi
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description 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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spelling pubmed-94083592022-08-26 Estimation Strategy Selection Is Modulated by Snapshot Emotional Priming, but Not Math Anxiety Zhu, Chuanlin Zhao, Xinyi Han, Xinhua Wang, Yun Liu, Dianzhi Luo, Wenbo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article 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. MDPI 2022-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9408359/ /pubmed/36011903 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610268 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Estimation Strategy Selection Is Modulated by Snapshot Emotional Priming, but Not Math Anxiety
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title_sort estimation strategy selection is modulated by snapshot emotional priming, but not math anxiety
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9408359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36011903
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610268
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