SRY and Anxiety: That such an effect is present within this task, but not in the other three tests of the anxiety battery, suggests that the four different tasks, whilst having some degree of overlap, assay distinct aspects of anxiety, and that Sry and other sex-linked genes can differentially influence these dissociable components of anxiety; there is convincing prior evidence that the four tasks used here do indeed assay distinct emotional processes (see for example 36).