Emotional strategies for long-term benefits: HOT121B nirs study

• Project/Area Number: 24653173
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Yamagata University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Kaori 山形大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (50183827)
• Project Period (FY): 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
• Keywords: 教育心理学 / 長期的視点

Research Abstract

The present experimental study examines the role of pride and envy may play in promoting decision-making toward goals that carry long-term benefits. After being induced either pride or envy, the subects were asked to make decisions about their choices in a scenario and their prefrontal cortex activities were measured during the task by HOT121B NIRS. The finding of this study documents the motivational function of envy in which this emotion may serve as an incentive to promote decision-making toward long-term benefits.