title: Unconsciously triggered emotional conflict by emotional facial expressions.
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.
authors: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing, China.
authors: Jun
authors: J
authors: Jiang
authors: Kira
authors: K
authors: Bailey
authors: Antao
authors: A
authors: Chen
authors: Qian
authors: Q
authors: Cui
authors: Qinglin
authors: Q
authors: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D055815:Young Adult