IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy.
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
Cogn Emot. 2024 May;38(3):348-360. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2296581. Epub 2024 Jan 16.
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.
随着最先进的技术可以创造出与真实图像难以区分的人工图像，我们迫切需要了解相信一张图片是真实的是否比对性唤起等情感现象更重要。因此，在两项预先注册的在线研究中，我们测试了 60 张模特穿着内衣的图片，当被认为是（ = 57）或呈现为（ = 108）真实照片而不是人工生成的时，是否会引起更高的自我报告性唤起。在这两种情况下，真实性与自我报告的性唤起显著相关。与关于对虚构作品的情感反应下调的文献一致，我们的结果表明，被认为是假的性图像比被认为描绘真实人物的图像的唤起程度更低。
