the processing of emotional stimuli are most pronounced for social emotional stimuli [38] and most importantly, for emotional stimuli with a weak perceptional salience [39], [40]. In accordance with this assumption, the stimuli administered in the present study were perceived subliminally by most of the participants. A comparable strong effect of gender was only found for the perception of subliminally presented facial expressions in the context of chemosensory anxiety signals [13].
