The reward anticipation is closely related with human life, it can affect people's emotions, evoked people's motivation. In recent years, people found that the reward anticipation plays an important role in emotional experiences and cognitive control of people. Under this background, the study used monetary incentive delay paradigm, selected 36 University students as subjects, compared three different types of reward anticipation effect degree of facial expression recognition. The results show that: (1) There is no effect of different reward anticipation on different facial expression; (2) Different facial expression have an effect in the response time, the reaction time of positive emotion was faster than that of neutral emotion, and the reaction time of neutral emotion was faster than that of negative emotion; (3) There is an interaction between reward anticipation and facial expression in the response time.