Negativity bias in attending to visual art

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<p>Human perception is inclined towards detecting and attending to negative stimuli – a bias potentially rooted in evolutionary pressures. We investigated whether this bias also exists in the perception of visual art. Study 1 established stimulus norms for 60 selected artworks. One-hundred-five participants rated each artwork for artistic value, affective valence and arousal. We also included objective measures of...

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• Attention
• Black or African American
• Black People
• Depressive Disorder, Major
• Face
• Individuality
• Phenotype
• Visual Perception

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Literature Corpus work

4a67c9bc-0bbc-5398-9e80-72ac6fa8f992

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/ja5wz_v2