Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing, China.
PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e55907. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055907. Epub 2013 Feb 7.
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.
本研究旨在探讨无意识情绪信息是否可以引发情绪冲突及情绪冲突适应，评估方法是采用掩蔽性情绪启动任务。参与者被要求识别一张面孔（如快乐或悲伤）的表情，这张面孔之前会呈现一张掩蔽的快乐或悲伤的面孔。两项实验的结果均显示出情绪冲突效应，但没有情绪冲突适应效应。这表明无意识呈现的情绪信息可以引发情绪冲突，但参与者可能不会逐个试验调整后续的表现以减少这种冲突。
