Fig. 3: Behavioral results.

a Averaged valence scores in Experiment 1 revealed a significant interaction effect between film color and editing (F_{1.6, 182.2} = 5.739, p = 0.007, η²_p = 0.048, Greenhouse-Geisser correction). Simple effects analysis showed that color sequences led to significantly greater absolute valence in fearful and happy editing than black-and-white sequences. Additionally, significant differences were observed between each film editing condition (all p < 0.001). b Averaged valence scores in Experiment 2 demonstrated the main effect of film editing on valence (F_{1.4, 91.2} = 168.000, p < 0.001, η²_p = 0.721, Greenhouse-Geisser correction). Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. Asterisks denote significant differences between conditions. (*p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001).