Objective To investigate the emotional conflict in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and examine the effect of temporal factor. Methods Seventeen GAD patients were enrolled in the study.An affective priming paradigm was used,with positive,negative and anxiety-related words as prime stimuli,and positive or negative pictures of faces as target stimuli.The subjects were asked to judge whether the target facial expressions were positive or negative. Three SOAs (Stimulus Onset Asynchrony),i.e,100m...