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| Pereira,M.G.; Volchan,E.; Oliveira,L.; Machado-Pinheiro,W.; Rodrigues,J.A.; Nepomuceno,F.V.P.; Pessoa,L.. |
| Previous studies have shown that women are more emotionally expressive than men. It is unclear, however, if women are also more susceptible to the emotional modulation of behavior imposed by an affective stimulus. To investigate this issue, we devised a task in which female subjects performed six sequential trials of visual target detection following the presentation of emotional (mutilation and erotic) or neutral pictures (domestic utensils and objects) and compared the data obtained in the present study with those described in a previous study with male subjects. The experiment consisted of three blocks of 24 pictures and each block had an approximate duration of 4 min. Our sample consisted of 36 subjects (age range: 18 to 26 years) and each subject... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Emotion; Behavior; Reaction time; Sex differences; Affective stimulus. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2004000300011 |
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