“…This result is in agreement with previous findings reporting that blood-related, injury and mutilation pictures are among the most threatening stimuli, provoking a rapid automatic identification and processing, as well as the engagement of the motivational defence system (e.g., Azevedo et al, 2005;Bradley et al, 2001Bradley et al, , 2007. For example, when compared to other arousing affective pictures, blood-related pictures provoke greater autonomic (e.g., SCRs) and somatic (corrugator supercilii activity) responses (e.g., Bradley et al, 2001;Sánchez-Navarro, Martínez-Selva, & Román, 2006;Sánchez-Navarro et al, 2012b), larger ERPs and electrocortical activity (e.g., Sarlo et al, 2005;Schupp et al, 2004), greater brain activity within the posterior ventral cortex (e.g., Bradley et al, 2003), as well as higher enzymatic and hormonal activity (Codispoti et al, 2003;Sánchez-Navarro, Maldonado, Martínez-Selva, Enguix, & Ortiz, 2012a).…”