Order sense is an interpreted state of the world pattern, which includes order and disorder states. By adopting a variety of order/disorder priming methods, previous studies examined how the perceived order and disorder influence individual's psychological processes and explicit behaviors. Various theories (Broken windows theory, Community perception theory, Goal based explanation, Rational agent explanation, Heuristic-Systematic model, Conceptual metaphor theory and "The world is random" theory) have been proposed to explain the influences of order/disorder on individual's psychological processes and explicit behaviors. However, the underpinned mechanism of that influences is still not be uncovered and none of these seven theories has been proven definitively so far. Future study should focus on exploiting neural mechanism of the psychological and behavioral consequences of order and disorder and other cognitive processes which may be involved, investigating some moderating variables such as personal traits, as well as integrating and verifying these seven theories.

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The trait emotional intelligence (EI), as lower personality trait, influences one's information processing ability. However, under stress situation, the depth of processing is different due to different pressure influences. The current study paid attention to how the trait EI affects memory bias and attentional bias under stress situation. Experiment 1 was designed to examine how the trait EI affects memory bias under stress situation. The design was 2 (group type: pressure group, control group) × 2 (trait EI type: high, low) randomized block design. Firstly, all the participants filled in the positive and negative affect scale (PANAS) to measure their the emotional state and the short form of questionnaire of trait of emotional intelligence to distinguish who has the high or low emotional intelligence; then, in the pressure condition, participants were induced stress through China Civil Service examination, while participants in the control condition were under general experimental material. After that, all participants performed autobiographical recall tasks (including content of memories, potency and potency evaluation). Experiment 2 was designed to examine how the trait EI affects attention bias under stress situation; the design and procedure was similar to Experiment 1, except for that a modified dot probe paradigm was used to measure the attentional bias. The results showed that under pressure situation, high trait emotional intelligence individuals bias toward processing positive memory and attention positive vocabulary, while low trait emotional intelligence individuals bias toward processing negative valence memory and attention negative vocabulary; but under control situation, both high and low trait emotional intelligence individuals did not have such memory or attention bias. These results of two experiments illustrated that trait EI has moderating effect and can buffer the influence of stress on information processing. The current study sheds light on how the trait emotional intelligence adjusts the pressure of information processing.