Abstract: There are two different views about the processing of emotional stimuli, namely automatic processing and non-automated processing. Related researches embody characteristic variables of automation concept by definition and exam how these variables are affected by emotional stimuli processing to determine whether the processing of emotional stimuli is automated. This paper discusses the reason of contradiction between the two views and proposes the opinion that the processing of emotional stimuli can’t be simply classified through automated processing or non-automated processing, but a process of early automatic processing and later controlling integration. In this process, the processing of emotional stimuli is affected by emotional significance and cognitive factors due to the existence of attention effect; thus it affects the automation degree of the processing of emotional stimuli.