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October 16, 2025Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOpen 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

This study reveals how social content affects emotional responses in visual scenes, suggesting early-stage priority in perception.

Key Points

  • Enhanced ERP amplitudes for positive social images indicate that social relevance mitigates negativity bias.
  • Participants exhibited faster initial saccades for social images, with fixation patterns favoring social scenes over neutral ones.
  • Earliest perceptual stages prioritize social content, while later evaluative processing is influenced by emotional valence.
  • Results challenge the traditional view of a general negativity bias, showing distinct roles for social and emotional relevance.

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Fischer et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f147cc724575985c3fd202https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf108
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