The Role of Exposure Time on the Subjective Ratings of Emotional Images in Younger and Older Adults.

Briana L Kennedy, Jacqueline W Tan, Tijl Grootswagers, Steven B Most

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Article in Affective science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Briana L KennedySchool of Psychological Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA Australia.

Jacqueline W TanSchool of Psychological Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA Australia.

Tijl GrootswagersThe MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW Australia.

Steven B MostSchool of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia.

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Abstract

Does the subjective emotionality of images change when they are only shown briefly, and are differences in the impact of emotional image duration modulated by age? The first question has broad implications for research on how emotional stimuli impact behavior, and the second question is pressing in light of evidence for age-related changes in how emotions are experienced. Here we present a study run in 2021, in which younger adults ( Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-025-00326-9.

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PMID41694080

DOI10.1007/s42761-025-00326-9

PMCPMC12894480

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