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Unconsciously Triggered Emotional Conflict by Emotional Facial Expressions

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: The present study investigated whether emotional conflict and emotional conflict adaptation could be triggered by unconscious emotional information as assessed in a backward-masked affective priming task. Participants were instructed to identify the valence of a face (e.g., happy or sad) preceded by a masked happy or sad face. The results of two experiments revealed the emotional conflict effect but no emotional conflict adaptation effect. This demonstrates that emotional conflict can be triggered by unconsciously presented emotional information, but participants may not adjust their subsequent performance trial-by trial to reduce this conflict.

Source: PLoS ONE

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055907

Authors: Jun Jiang, Kira Bailey, Antao Chen, Qian Cui, Qinglin Zhang

Institutions: Southwest University, University of Missouri

Language: English

Topic: Face Recognition and Perception

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,382

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Southwest University, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University