Exposure to sexualized media content and selective attention for sexual cues: An experimental study
Experiment to test how sexualized media exposure affects later attention allocation. Participants watched a sexual or control video before completing dot and word tasks. All participants showed selective attention for explicitly displayed sexual cues. Participants in sexual video conditions were quicker to detect hidden sexual cues. Results may contribute to a better understanding of how sexual schemas are formed.
sexualized media content selective attention attention bias dot detection word search task cognitive process