TY - GEN
T1 - Sex-Dependent Effects of Emotional Subliminal Visual Stimuli on a Decision-Making Task
AU - Dancy, Christopher L.
AU - Ritter, Frank E.
AU - Hillary, Frank G.
AU - Voller, Kevin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially funded through support from the Bunton-Waller Fellowship (CLD), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Graduate Scholarship (CLD), and the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship (CLD). The authors thank Jack Harris at AFRL (711 HPW) for his advice with regards to using the MindModeling@Home platform.
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - How do covert emotional stimuli affect decision-making? We investigated this question by exposing participants to subliminal visual stimuli during a computerized version of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) to assess whether different categories of images (negative, neutral, or positive emotional evaluations) would influence decision-making behavior. Results did show sex-group interactions for IGT scores. In decision learning model simulations, it was found that different models were more appropriate to explain the task performance for different sex-group pairs. Overall, women showed more of an ability to integrate the additive negative signals from the stimuli to make more advantageous decisions than the men; consequently, this made the men more resilient to the negative effects of the positive stimuli on task-performance. When taken with existing research, the results indicate that subliminal emotional stimuli can have subtle, potentially sex-dependent, effects on behavior during the decision-making process.
AB - How do covert emotional stimuli affect decision-making? We investigated this question by exposing participants to subliminal visual stimuli during a computerized version of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) to assess whether different categories of images (negative, neutral, or positive emotional evaluations) would influence decision-making behavior. Results did show sex-group interactions for IGT scores. In decision learning model simulations, it was found that different models were more appropriate to explain the task performance for different sex-group pairs. Overall, women showed more of an ability to integrate the additive negative signals from the stimuli to make more advantageous decisions than the men; consequently, this made the men more resilient to the negative effects of the positive stimuli on task-performance. When taken with existing research, the results indicate that subliminal emotional stimuli can have subtle, potentially sex-dependent, effects on behavior during the decision-making process.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition
SP - 1872
EP - 1877
BT - CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017
Y2 - 26 July 2017 through 29 July 2017
ER -