One’s evaluation of the emotional value of objects appears to be influenced by ways in which an individual interacts with certain objects. For example, people tend to prefer objects that are repeatedly encountered relative to novel (i.e., unexposed) ones. This preferential bias has been labeled as the mere exposure effect (Zajonc, 1968). In addition to this heightening of preference, simply interacting with objects can also lead to a decrease in preference for certain objects (Raymond et al., 2003). In latter study, participants were presented with two different types of Mondrian-like stimuli and they were asked to select one of them as a target based on a specified categorical criterion. In a subsequent rating, participants were required to evaluate the affective valence of these two types of stimuli as well as of novel stimuli. The results showed that the stimuli previously rejected as distractors were subsequently evaluated more negatively than the stimuli selected as target and the novel stimuli. This emotional devaluation of the distractor stimuli, called the distractor devaluation effect (Raymond et al., 2003), is a robust phenomenon that has been observed in various experimental paradigms, such as in a visual search task (Fenske et al., 2004; Raymond et al., 2005), rapid serial visual presentation task (Kihara et al., 2011), and flanker task (Martiny-Huenger et al., 2014). In addition, this effect has been replicated using a wide range of stimuli such as geometric figures (Veling et al., 2008), line drawings (Griffiths and Mitchell, 2008), and human faces (Fenske et al., 2005).