Fig. 1.

Experiment 2 included three emotion conditions, with angry voices presented in the left or right ear or neither. On an trials, an angry voice was heard on the task-relevant side, whereas on na trials, an angry voice was heard on the task-irrelevant side. On nn trials, neutral voices were presented to each ear. (A) Examples show all three conditions when attention was focused on the right ear. The same trials were also performed when attention was focused on the left ear (not shown here). (B) RTs and error rates for gender decisions on the attended voice revealed a main effect for the factor condition, indicating increased RTs and error rates during the an condition, as indicated by the asterisks.