%0 Journal Article %T A Review of Studies on Unconscious Emotional Priming %A Juan Chen %A He Chen %A Lingkai Ma %A Yuanyuan Jiang %J Open Access Library Journal %V 7 %N 4 %P 1-11 %@ 2333-9721 %D 2020 %I Open Access Library %R 10.4236/oalib.1106284 %X Emotional priming extends the priming paradigm to the field of emotion, which not only deepens the traditional priming paradigm, but also promotes the experimental study of emotion. There is a new development of automatic activation of unconscious emotions and attitudes, that is, the subjects did not know that the priming stimulus had been presented. His research is of great significance in promoting the research of attitude in the field of emotion and social cognition. As a new extension of the research paradigm of unconscious emotional priming, the paper mainly discusses the contribution of this research paradigm to the field of emotion and social cognition, the existing problems and the future research direction. %K Emotional Priming %K Unconsciousness %K Emotion %U http://www.oalib.com/paper/5431457