Effect Of Subliminal Emotion On Cognitive Bias And Cognitive Efficiency Between Trait Anxiety Individuals

In recent years, the research in emotion from consciousness to unconsciousness, more and more researchers begin to explore the subliminal emotion in this relatively new field. Research has shown that, subliminal emotion can stimulate more biological reaction more. Therefore, the impact of unconscious emotion can be seen reflects the relationship between the characteristics of emotion and cognition more initial meaning and more pure. The trait anxiety is a personality trait, with individual long-standing emotional experience, has the characteristics of implicit, stability, difference. Research has shown that trait anxiety individuals on the surrounding environment of threat stimuli and fear stimulus and other negative attention bias to exist, demonstrated this type of information is especially sensitive or processing has stronger and locking tendency. They have high anxiety arousal level, easy to produce higher anxiety mood, which is a deep, narrow and lasting emotional state, generally do not attention by people, similar to subliminal emotion.The previous studies on the biases in anxiety group pay attention to emotional information, the researchers mostly use group clinical anxiety disorder as the object, instead of the normal population in the high trait anxiety group, but in real life, it was diagnosed with anxiety neurosis patients are a minority, mostly anxiety level is normal. In addition, in the emotional impact of trait anxiety individual attention bias, domestic researches are able to realize strong emotional, cognitive subliminal emotion on trait anxiety individuals will have what effect, the study in this field is still blank.The study consisted of two experiments, choosing the neutral, cry, smile face as affective priming, selecting subliminal presentation, to be tried to neutral head picture expression guess difference index, survey participants whether affective priming effect (i.e. mood congruency effect) discuss the subliminal emotion, attentional bias effect on the trait anxiety individuals. The experimental paradigm of experiment two with affective priming and the emotional Stroop combined with experiment, the priming stimulus, the same is under the threshold, in order to be tried as an indicator to the color word accuracy and reaction color judgment task, the influence of cognitive efficiency subliminal emotion on trait anxiety individuals. The results are as follows:1. The high trait anxiety individuals have cry expression of subliminal priming effect, tend to cry expression priming followed by the target stimuli judged to cry, but found no smiling expression of subliminal priming effect, namely their subliminal negative emotional.2. Compared with low trait anxiety individuals, the high trait anxiety individuals will closely follow the cry expression after target stimuli judged to cry a greater probability, significant difference, they on subliminal negative emotional stimulation showed more attention bias.3. The high trait anxiety group produced a subliminal emotional Stroop effect, they are "cry" under the conditions of the color word color naming reaction time was significantly longer than the "smile" and "neutral" condition, crying face significant main effect. That negative emotion subliminal influence cognitive efficiency high trait anxiety individuals subsequently, inhibit the cognitive processing. While the low trait anxiety group did not find this effect.4. The high trait anxiety and low trait anxiety group showed significant differences, the high trait anxiety group were longer than low trait anxiety group in three under the conditions of the reaction time, explain positive, negative and neutral unconscious emotional stimuli were interfering with their cognitive processing efficiency.