title: Evidence for perceptual defense using a lexical decision task.
abstract: In a tachistoscopic experiment employing a lexical-decision task, it was demonstrated that emotional ("taboo") words are not responded to as quickly or as accurately as non-emotional ("neutral") words by 32 college students. The results suggest evidence for "perceptual defense" uncontaminated by response bias.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007257:Information Theory; D010467:Perceptual Defense; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D013609:Taboo; D014794:Visual Fields