Emotional states before and after impulsivity.

This article explores the relations of emotions and impulsivity. Impulsivity can induce pathological behaviors such as alcoholic, gambling, obesity, and other addictive behaviors. Past researches demonstrate people often feel regret and guilty after being impulsive. This article uses paper-and-pencil experimental method to measure respondents’ emotions and provide a script to induce respondents’ impulsive reaction. Utilizing Chi-square Test and Independent-samples T-test, the researchers surprisingly found people are easier to become impulsive under the mood state of “careless”, and more difficult to become impulsive under “joy” and “anxiety”. Post affects of impulsivity include “joy”, “satisfaction”, and surprisingly “un-regret” and “un-guilty”. It has significant implications theoretically and practically. Reliability is 0.80; manipulation check and Pearson correlations are significant (p**≪0.01). The analytical results are discussed and future research directions are also suggested.