Eliciting emotion ratings for a set of film clips: A preliminary archive for research in emotion. Issue 6 (1st November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zupan, Barbra; Eskritt, Michelle
• Is Part Of: Journal of social psychology. Volume 160:Issue 6(2020)
• Page Start: 768
• Page End: 789
• Publication Date: 2020-11-01
• Subjects: Emotion elicitation -- film -- stimuli -- validation; Social psychology -- Periodicals; Psychology, Social -- Periodicals; Psychologie sociale -- Périodiques; Sociale psychologie; Electronic journals; 302.05
• DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2020.1758016
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-4545

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Film clips are commonly used to elicit subjectively experienced emotional states for many research purposes, but film clips currently available in databases are out of date, include a limited set of emotions, and/or pertain to only one conceptualization of emotion. This work reports validation data from two studies aimed to elicit basic and complex emotions (amusement, anger, anxiety, compassion, contentment, disgust, fear, happiness/joy, irritation, neutrality, pride, relief, sadness, surprise), equally distributed according to valence (positive, negative) and intensity (high, low). Participants rated film clips according to the degree of experienced emotion, and for valence and arousal. Our findings initiate an iterative archive of film clips shown here to discretely elicit 11 different emotions. Although further validation of these film clips is needed, ratings provided here should assist researchers in selecting potential film clips to meet the aims of their work.