Affective coherence refers to the coupling between one’s embodied affective reactions( affective feelings,affective- related body movement and facial expressions,etc.) and the affective cognitive appraisal( the concept of affective content,positive and negative). The current experiment,in which 89 college students participated,examined the impact of affective coherence on( gender) stereotypes. Participants were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions. In the experiment,participants first listened to a piece of music set to prim...