Gender Differences In Attention Bias Recognition Under Fear

Fear, as one of the basic human emotions, has a positive meaning in evolution for humans to escape the threat. This makes it possible to complete the regulation of physiological activity state in a short time in order to respond quickly to danger information. Studies have shown that men and women have gender differences in awareness and recognition of fears. In recent decades about the correlation between emotions and cognition research hotspot-Attention Bias study, researchers rarely study if the normal people in the fear have gender differences in attention bias. In this study, we select video material as emotional arousal material and emotional faces as stimuli to study the Attention Bias of male and female students (60 each, a total of 120) in fear.The main results are as follows:(1) The reaction time of positive faces is longer than the one of negative faces when female and male were under normal or induce-fear emotion.(2)Under normal emotion:Female's reaction time of disengaging toward stimuli to the negative faces is bigger than 0. Male's reaction time of disengaging toward stimuli to the negative faces is smaller than 0.(3) Male individuals under induce-fear emotion tended to show attentional bias to the negative faces, relating to disengagement difficulties. At the same time, Female individuals under induce-fear emotion showed attentional bias to the positive faces.The main conclusions are as follows:(1) Female and male individual showed attentional bias to the negative faces when they were under normal or induce-fear emotion.(2) There had sex difference in attentional bias when woman and man were under normal emotion:Female individuals showed attentional bias to the negative faces, relating to disengagement difficulties. Male individuals showed attentional avoidance to the negative faces, relating to speed of orienting.(3) Male individuals under induce-fear emotion tended to show attentional bias to the negative faces, relating to disengagement difficulties. Female individuals under induce-fear emotion showed attentional bias to the negative faces, relating to disengagement difficulties. At the same time, Female individuals under induce-fear emotion showed attentional bias to the positive faces.