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1、GModelEURPSY-2972;No.ofPages7EuropeanPsychiatryxxx(2011)xxx–xxxOriginalarticleGenderdifferencesinthesensitivitytonegativestimuli:Cross-modalaffective§primingstudya,*,bccdce,fc,gB.GohierC.Senior,P.J.Brittain,N.Lounes,W.El-Hage,V.Law,M.L.Phillips,S.A.Surgula

2、dzeaDe´partementdepsychiatrie,UPRESEA2646,CHUd’Angers,49033Angers,FrancebSchoolofLife&HealthSciences,AstonUniversity,AstonTriangle,Birmingham,B47ET,UKcDepartmentofPsychosis,King’sCollege,LondonInstituteofPsychiatry,DeCrespignyPark,London,SE58AF,UKdInsermU-

3、930,FRECNRS2448,universite´Franc¸ois-Rabelais,cliniquepsychiatriqueuniversitaire,CHRUdeTours,Tours,FranceeDepartmentofPsychiatry,WesternPsychiatricInstituteandClinic,UniversityofPittsburghSchoolofMedicine,USAfDepartmentofPsychologicalMedicine,CardiffUniver

4、sitySchoolofMedicine,UKgCygnetHealthCare,UKARTICLEINFOABSTRACTArticlehistory:Background.–ThereisevidenceshowingthatmenandwomendifferwithregardtotheprocessingofReceived15January2011emotionalinformation.However,themechanismsbehindthesedifferencesarenotfullyu

5、nderstood.Receivedinrevisedform26May2011Method.Accepted–Thesamplecomprisedof275(167female)right-handed,healthyparticipants,recruitedfrom22June2011thecommunity.Weemployedacustomizedaffectiveprimingtask,whichconsistedofthreesubtests,differinginthemodalityoft

6、heprime(face,writtenword,andsound).ThetargetswerealwayswrittenKeywords:wordsofeitherpositiveornegativevalence.TheprimingeffectwasmeasuredasreactiontimeGenderfacilitationinconditionswherebothprimeandtargetwereemotional(ofthesamepositiveornegativePrimingvale

7、nce)Emotioncomparedwithconditionswheretheemotionaltargetswereprecededbyneutralprimes.Results.–Theprimingeffectwasobservedacrossallthreemodalities,withaninteractionofgenderbyCross-modalvalence:theprimingeffectintheemotionallynegativeconditioninmaleparticipa

8、ntswasstrongercomparedwithfemales.Thiswasaccountedforbythedifferentialprimingeffectwithinthefemalegroupwhereprimingwassignificantlysmallerintheemotionallynegativeconditionscomparedwiththepositiveconditions.The