Figure 1. The subjective ratings of negative emotion experience in three priming conditions and two ordinal positions.

The larger rating scores indicated stronger negative emotion experience. The ANOVAs results revealed a main effect of priming conditions. Both priming control and expression showed lower negative emotion experience ratings than priming unrelated condition, regardless of the ordinal positions. The difference between priming control and expression was not significant. Error bars indicate the standard error (* means p < 0.050).