This research evaluates whether advanced AI systems can accurately assess human emotional responses to visual content, with significant implications for healthcare applications.

• Multimodal language models demonstrated the ability to emulate human normative judgments on emotional images
• AI systems effectively evaluated images across dimensions of valence, arousal, and dominance
• Results suggest AI can understand culturally-shaped emotional concepts, not just detect basic emotions
• Opens pathways for more empathetic AI tools in psychological assessment and therapeutic contexts

For medical professionals, this breakthrough could enable more accurate emotional screening tools, support therapy applications, and improve patient-AI interactions in mental health settings.

Artificial Intelligence Can Emulate Human Normative Judgments on Emotional Visual Scenes