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Unconsciously Triggered Emotional Conflict by Emotional Facial Expressions

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  • Jun Jiang
  • Kira Bailey
  • Antao Chen
  • Qian Cui
  • Qinglin Zhang

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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.

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  • Jun Jiang & Kira Bailey & Antao Chen & Qian Cui & Qinglin Zhang, 2013. "Unconsciously Triggered Emotional Conflict by Emotional Facial Expressions," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(2), pages 1-7, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0055907
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055907
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