Fig. 1.

Primed-judgment task. Participants viewed a negative emotion or neutral word prime, and then judged whether they saw an angry or happy facial expression in a composition of emotive facial expressions. Judgments of ambiguous compositions (composed of one angry face and one happy face) constituted the critical trials for analysis of emotion-congruence effects. Judgments indicating the angry expression after a negative prime were classified as emotion-congruent, whereas judgments indicating the happy expression after a negative prime were classified as emotion-incongruent.