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

Chuanlin Zhu (), Xinyi Zhao, Xinhua Han, Yun Wang (), Dianzhi Liu and Wenbo Luo
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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

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 16, 1-15

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.

Keywords: emotional priming; estimation strategy selection; math anxiety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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