In the current study, men's cognitive performance might have decreased because they were busy thinking about the upcoming interaction and their interaction partner.
Relatedly, males may feel anxious when thinking about an upcoming interaction (as Levin did), which may negatively affect cognitive performance (cf. Richeson & Shelton, 2003).
In our article, we suggests that impression management could be a key factor, in that men were preparing for the upcoming interaction (e.g., by thinking of what to say to the woman), or may try to "save" their resources so they could make a good impression in the upcoming interaction.
It is also possible that men felt anxious when thinking about the upcoming interaction or that they chose to allocate less resources to the Stroop task in order to "save" cognitive resources for the actual interaction to be able to make a good impression on their interaction partner later on.
If so, this might suggest that for a skilled reader who has had many thousands of hours of experience with print, the very presence of word-like stimuli in the visual field can trigger a response in IFG, and its role is to prime the rest of the language system to prepare for upcoming crossmodal interactions between the vision and language systems - a stimulus driven anticipatory response.
Then they will list the ingredients that go into an effective neutrino interaction program worldwide, and describe how the new and upcoming neutrino interaction experiments and related efforts help to provide those ingredients.
First, it seems plausible that the high SAs in anticipation of the social interaction expected that they would not be able to avoid the upcoming social interaction, and that this increased the importance and emotional significance of the human stimuli.
Anyone who's spent enough time on the Internet knows that an invocation of the First Amendment, or a certain spurious Voltaire quote, is a surefire warning sign of an upcoming unpleasant interaction with an unpleasant person.
This study investigated implicit approach and avoidance tendencies of high and low SAs during neutral circumstances and in anticipation of an upcoming social interaction.
Moreover, we informed the participants that they would meet one of the individuals presented in the Face-Turn AAT in the upcoming social interaction.
