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    Previous studies on the effects of emotional context on memory for centrally presented neutral items have obtained inconsistent results. And in most of those studies subjects were asked to either make a connection between the item and the context at study or retrieve both the item and the context. When no response for the contexts is required, how emotional contexts influence memory for neutral items is still unclear. Thus, the present study attempted to investigate the influences of four types …Read more
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    Previous work has demonstrated that simple geometric shapes may convey emotional meaning using various experimental paradigms. However, whether affective meaning of simple geometric shapes can be automatically activated and influence the evaluations of subsequent stimulus is still unclear. Thus the present study employed an affective priming paradigm to investigate whether and how two geometric shapes (circle vs. downward triangle) impact on the affective processing of subsequently presented fac…Read more
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    Sex-Specific Functional Connectivity in the Reward Network Related to Distinct Gender Roles
    with Yin Du, Mengxia Yu, Xue Tian, and Jia Liu
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14. 2021.
    Gender roles are anti-dichotomous and malleable social constructs that should theoretically be constructed independently from biological sex. However, it is unclear whether and how the factor of sex is related to neural mechanisms involved in social constructions of gender roles. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate sex specificity in gender role constructions and the corresponding underlying neural mechanisms. We measured gender role orientation using the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, used a …Read more
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    Perceived Social Support Protects Lonely People Against COVID-19 Anxiety: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in China
    with Jianjie Xu, Jingyi Ou, Shuyi Luo, Zhuojun Wang, Edward Chang, Claire Novak, Jingyi Shen, and Shaoying Zheng
    Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.