Gender Differences In Individual’s Emotional Susceptibility Of Low Arousal Stimulus

A large number of studies have shown that the existence of negative bias. Compared to positive and neutral stimuli, negative emotional stimuli are more sensitive to negative emotional stimuli, and get more priority to emotional processing (cacioppo,1999; huang and luo,2006; li yuan,2008). This negative bias which has an evolutionary sense, is more suitable for the survival of subjects.However, Prior studies indicated that increased stimulus arousal is associated with a more intense responding in withdrawal compared to approach motivation systems, consequently leading to enhanced brain responding to unpleasant compared to pleasant stimuli. In contrast, when emotional stimuli are of lower arousal, the approach motivational system responds more heavily than does the withdrawal motivational system, leading to a positivity offset which predicts enhanced brain responding to pleasant compared to unpleasant stimuli.In this study, two experiments are implicit emotional paradigm. Experimental one use of negative emotional text material, exploring male, women were the face of low arousal negative emotion materials, how gender differences in emotional sensitivity. The experimental two use of two positive emotional text material, exploring male, women were the face of low arousal positive emotional material, the gender differences in emotional sensitivity. Normal college students take part in this experiment.The stimuli are from the CAWS. In each experiment, subjects did only two types of key response standard/ deviation to judge the stimulus picture, regardless of the emotional characteristics of stimuli. The results obtained are as follows:The results indicated that when emotional Chinese words, which were relatively low in emotion arousal, were used as materials’, female’s underlying negative motivational system responded more intensely than did the positive motivational system, consequently leading to more pronounced emotion effect for mild unpleasant stimuli than for pleasant stimuli; male’s underlying positive motivational system responded more intensely than did the negative motivational system, consequently leading to more pronounced emotion effect for mild pleasant stimuli than for unpleasant stimuli.