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The number of fixations made on different scene components was<br />

further analysed by examining the proportion of fixations made on the object as<br />

a proportion of fixations made on the entire scene (see Figure 5.13). A 3<br />

(emotion) x 4 (experiment) ANOVA with the repeated measures factor of<br />

emotion and the between-participants factor of experiment revealed a main<br />

effect of emotion (F(2,136) = 7.65, MSe = 0.03, p < .001, partial eta 2 = .10) and<br />

a main effect of experiment (F(3,68) = 1112.28, MSe = 0.40, p < .001, partial<br />

eta 2 = .83). The interaction between emotion and experiment was not<br />

significant [F(6,136) = 0.82, MSe < 0.01, p = .56, partial eta 2 = .04]. Planned<br />

contrasts revealed this proportion was significantly greater for scenes with an<br />

emotional and neutral object (F(1,68) = 4.69, p < .05), and significantly greater<br />

proportion for scenes with a negative than positive object (F(1,68) = 11.25, p <<br />

.001). The significant main effect of experiment was further explored using<br />

post-hoc comparisons with a Bonferroni correction for multiple tests. These<br />

revealed that this proportion was significantly reduced for Experiment 9 in<br />

comparison to all other Experiments, but there were no other differences (Expt<br />

7 > Expt 9, p < .001; Expt 10 > Expt 9, p < .001; Expt 8 > Expt 9, p < .001).<br />

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