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September 28, 2025Open Access

Challenging the negativity bias in affective scene viewing: The role of social content

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AFAnna FischerDPDanilo PostinLMLina Johanna Meiners

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Overview

Event-related potentials uncover how social content influences emotional valence in visual scenes, indicating a shift in attention priorities.

Key Points

  • Enhanced P1 amplitudes for positive social images suggest social relevance reduces negativity bias, particularly in early processing.
  • Eye-tracking indicates faster initial saccades for social images, highlighting the early prioritization of social content over non-social details.
  • Social content affects the EPN component, while emotional valence shapes later ERP components, showing a complex interaction during scene viewing.
  • Findings support a sequential appraisal process in which social information is prioritized early, with emotion influencing later evaluations.

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Fischer et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d913b74ddcf71ba560c285https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a6bvg_v2
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