The Correlation Between Emotions and Photos

Principal Investigator:
Rosemary Diaz

Faculty Advisor:
Christine Doyle

Abstract:
This experiment was conducted to see how emotions are affected by photos. There were 55 participants who answered an invitation to 1 of 2 online surveys. The surveys had a dark/foggy photo and sunny photo viewed in the opposite order from each other. A series of statistical analysis was used to analyze the hypothesis that emotions can be affected by photos. Two different pictures were presented to participants with the order of the pictures changing per participant. A Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was performed with an alpha level .05. There was a main effect for picture type, F(1,105)=10.493, p < .01, n2 = .091. There was no main effect for order of presentation, F(1, 105)=.087, p=ns. There was an interaction between picture type and order of presentation, F(1,105)=6.314, p