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- An examination of how the perception of images (real vs. artificial) affects sexual arousal levels was conducted through two online studies.
- 60 underwear images were shown to participants, revealing that those believed to be real elicited greater self-reported sexual arousal compared to those perceived as artificially generated.
- The findings suggest that images perceived as real evoke stronger emotional responses, supporting existing research on emotional responses to fictional versus real-life stimuli.
Article Abstract
As state-of-art technology can create artificial images that are indistinguishable from real ones, it is urgent to understand whether believing that a picture is real or not has some import over affective phenomena such as sexual arousal. Thus, in two pre-registered online studies, we tested whether 60 images depicting models in underwear elicited higher self-reported sexual arousal when believed to be ( = 57) or presented as ( = 108) real photographs as opposed to artificially generated. In both cases, Realness correlated with significantly higher scores on self-reported sexual arousal. Consistently with the literature on downregulation of emotional response to fictional works, our result indicates that sexual images that are perceived to be fake are less arousing than those believed to portray real people.
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