{"pk":27132,"title":"Sex-Dependent Effects of Emotional Subliminal VisualStimuli on a Decision-Making Task","subtitle":null,"abstract":"How do covert emotional stimuli affect decision-making? We investigated this question by exposing par-ticipants to subliminal visual stimuli during a computer-ized version of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) to assesswhether different categories of images (negative, neutral,or positive emotional evaluations) would influence deci-sion-making behavior. Results did show sex-group inter-actions for IGT scores. In decision learning model simu-lations, it was found that different models were more ap-propriate to explain the task performance for differentsex-group pairs. Overall, women showed more of anability to integrate the additive negative signals from thestimuli to make more advantageous decisions than themen; consequently, this made the men more resilient tothe negative effects of the positive stimuli on task-performance. When taken with existing research, the re-sults indicate that subliminal emotional stimuli can havesubtle, potentially sex-dependent, effects on behaviorduring the decision-making process.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"decision-making"},{"word":"IGT"},{"word":"Emotion"},{"word":"Simulation"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5th7j9vk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Christopher","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Dancy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bucknell University","department":""},{"first_name":"Frank","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Ritter","name_suffix":"","institution":"Penn State","department":""},{"first_name":"Frank","middle_name":"G.","last_name":"Hillary","name_suffix":"","institution":"Penn State","department":""},{"first_name":"Kevin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Voller","name_suffix":"","institution":"Dick’s Sporting Goods eCommerce","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27132/galley/16768/download/"}]}