Data from: Implicit violent imagery processing among fans and non-fans of violent music

It is suggested that long-term exposure to violent media may decrease sensitivity to depictions of violence. However, it is unknown whether persistent exposure to music with violent themes affects implicit violent imagery processing. Using a binocular rivalry paradigm, we investigated whether the presence of violent music influences conscious awareness of violent imagery among fans and non-fans of such music. Thirty-two fans and 48 non-fans participated in the study. Violent and neutral pictures were simultaneously presented one to each eye, and participants indicated which picture they perceived (i.e. violent percept, neutral percept, or blend of two) via key presses, while they heard Western popular music with lyrics that expressed happiness or Western extreme-metal music with lyrics that expressed violence. We found both fans and non-fans of violent music exhibited a general negativity bias for violent imagery over neutral imagery regardless of the music genres. For non-fans, this bias was stronger while listening to music that expressed violence than while listening to music that expressed happiness. For fans of violent music, however, the bias was the same while listening to music that expressed either violence or happiness. We discussed these results in view of current debates on the impact of violent media.

Usage Notes
Binocular Rivalry DatasetDefinitions of abbreviations used in the dataset:

VM – Violent Music
HM – Happy Music
VP – Violent Percept
NP – Neutral Percept
PFP – Proportion of First Percept
MPD – Mean Percept DurationBR_dataset.csv

有研究表明，长期接触暴力媒体可能会降低个体对暴力描写的敏感性。然而，关于持续接触以暴力主题为特色的音乐是否会影响潜在的暴力意象处理，尚无明确结论。本研究采用双眼竞争范式，探究暴力音乐的呈现是否会影响该音乐的支持者与非支持者对暴力意象的自觉意识。共有32名支持者和48名非支持者参与了此次研究。在实验中，将暴力图像和中性图像同时呈现给参与者的双眼，参与者通过按键来指出他们所感知到的图像（即暴力感知、中性感知或两种感知的混合），同时他们聆听的是表达快乐的西方流行音乐或表达暴力的西方极端金属音乐。研究发现，无论是暴力音乐的支持者还是非支持者，在音乐类型不论的情况下，均表现出对暴力图像相较于中性图像的普遍负面偏向。对于非支持者而言，在聆听表达暴力的音乐时，这种偏向更为显著，而在聆听表达快乐的音乐时则较弱。然而，对于暴力音乐的支持者，无论音乐表达的是暴力还是快乐，其偏向并无明显差异。我们结合当前关于暴力媒体影响的争论，对这些结果进行了讨论。

使用说明

双眼竞争数据集定义了以下缩写：

VM – 暴力音乐
HM – 快乐音乐
VP – 暴力感知
NP – 中性感知
PFP – 首次感知比例
MPD – 平均感知持续时间
BR_dataset.csv