Presenting KAPODI – The Searchable Database of Emotional Stimuli Sets

Emotion Review ◽

10.1177/17540739211072803 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 175407392110728

Author(s):

Kathrin Diconne ◽

Georgios K. Kountouriotis ◽

Aspasia E. Paltoglou ◽

Andrew Parker ◽

Thomas J. Hostler

Keyword(s):

Online Version ◽

Emotional Stimuli ◽

Searchable Database ◽

Video Clips

Emotional stimuli such as images, words, or video clips are often used in studies researching emotion. New sets are continuously being published, creating an immense number of available sets and complicating the task for researchers who are looking for suitable stimuli. This paper presents the KAPODI-database of emotional stimuli sets that are freely available or available upon request. Over 45 aspects including over 25 key set characteristics have been extracted and listed for each set. The database facilitates finding of and comparison between individual sets. It currently contains sets published between 1963 and 2020. A searchable online version ( https://airtable.com/shrnVoUZrwu6riP9b ) allows users to select specific set characteristics and to find matching sets accordingly, as well as to add new published sets.

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KAPODI- The Searchable Database of 364 Available Emotional Stimuli Sets

10.31234/osf.io/6j9mx ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kathrin Diconne ◽

Aspa Paltoglou ◽

Georgios Kountouriotis ◽

Andrew Parker ◽

Tom Hostler

Keyword(s):

Rating Scales ◽

Research Community ◽

Online Version ◽

Emotional Stimuli ◽

Searchable Database ◽

Video Clips ◽

The Past ◽

The Creation

Emotional stimuli such as images, words, music, speech, or video-clips are often used in studies researching emotion. Over the past decades, new sets have continuously been published and presented to the research community. The immense number of available sets can complicate the task when researchers are looking for suitable stimuli for their study.This paper presents the comprehensive work of the creation of a database currently including 364 stimuli sets published between 1963 and 2020. All included sets are freely available or available upon request. Over 45 aspects, including over 25 key set characteristics such as sort, number and resolution of included stimuli; rating scales; included emotions; age, gender and number of raters; or, age, gender and number of models, have been extracted and listed for each stimuli set. A searchable online version of the database allows users to select specific set characteristics and to find matching stimuli sets accordingly. The KAPODI searchable database facilitates finding of and comparison between individual sets, and therefore provides a useful resource for researchers aiming to access emotional stimuli sets.

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Effect of heightened interoceptive awareness among smokers on misinterpretation of emotional arousal

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.8681 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Minseung Kim ◽

Yeon-Ju Park ◽

Kiho Kim ◽

Jang-Han Lee

Keyword(s):

Smoking Status ◽

The Body ◽

Interoceptive Awareness ◽

Emotional Stimuli ◽

High Arousal ◽

Amplification Bias ◽

Video Clips ◽

Before And After ◽

Positive Stimuli ◽

Subjective Arousal

We investigated the differences in the emotional experiences of people who smoke and have damaged interoceptive awareness. Interoception is the sensation of the physiological condition of the body, and it has 2 biases: neglect and amplification of bodily feedback. We recruited 72 participants and divided them into 4 groups according to smoking status and interoceptive bias based on their scores on the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness. All groups assessed their physiological and subjective arousal before and after watching video clips (positive–low arousal, positive–high arousal, negative–low arousal, negative–high arousal, neutral). The results indicated that people with amplification (vs. neglect) bias who smoked showed stronger subjective arousal to neutral stimuli. In contrast, people with amplification (vs. neglect) bias who did not smoke showed stronger subjective arousal to positive stimuli. These findings suggest that people who smoke and have an amplification bias could be more likely to misinterpret neutral emotional stimuli, leading to an increased craving for smoking.

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Evaluating and Validating Emotion Elicitation Using English and Arabic Movie Clips on a Saudi Sample

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19102218 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (10) ◽

pp. 2218 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sharifa Alghowinem ◽

Roland Goecke ◽

Michael Wagner ◽

Areej Alwabil

Keyword(s):

Online Survey ◽

English Language ◽

Recognition Rate ◽

Affective States ◽

Emotional Stimuli ◽

Behavioural Responses ◽

Emotion Elicitation ◽

Video Clips ◽

Multiclass Svm ◽

The Relationship

With the advancement of technology in both hardware and software, estimating human affective states has become possible. Currently, movie clips are used as they are a widely-accepted method of eliciting emotions in a replicable way. However, cultural differences might influence the effectiveness of some video clips to elicit the target emotions. In this paper, we describe several sensors and techniques to measure, validate and investigate the relationship between cultural acceptance and eliciting universal expressions of affect using movie clips. For emotion elicitation, a standardised list of English language clips, as well as an initial set of Arabic video clips are used for comparison. For validation, bio-signal devices to measure physiological and behavioural responses associated with emotional stimuli are used. Physiological and behavioural responses are measured from 29 subjects of Arabic background while watching the selected clips. For the six emotions’ classification, a multiclass SVM (six-class) classifier using the physiological and behavioural measures as input results in a higher recognition rate for elicited emotions from Arabic video clips (avg. 60%) compared to the English video clips (avg. 52%). These results might reflect that using video clips from the subjects’ culture is more likely to elicit the target emotions. Besides measuring the physiological and behavioural responses, an online survey was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the selected video clips in eliciting the target emotions. The online survey, having on average 220 respondents for each clip, supported the findings.

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Smile (but only deliberately) though your heart is aching: Loneliness is associated with impaired spontaneous smile mimicry

10.31234/osf.io/jfdgy ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andy Arnold

Keyword(s):

Emotional Stimuli ◽

Resonance Mechanism ◽

Facial Electromyography ◽

Social And Emotional ◽

Video Clips ◽

Behavioral Mechanism ◽

Corrugator Supercilii ◽

Physiological Dysregulation ◽

Resonance Response ◽

Perceived Social Isolation

As social beings, humans harbor an evolved capacity for loneliness—perceived social isolation. Feelings of loneliness are associated with aberrant affective and social processing, as well as deleterious physiological dysregulation. We investigated how loneliness affects spontaneous facial mimicry (SFM), an interpersonal resonance mechanism involved in social connection and emotional contagion. We used facial electromyography (fEMG) to measure activity of the zygomaticus major (“smiling muscle”) and corrugator supercilii (“frowning muscle”) while participants viewed emotional stimuli, such as video clips of actors expressing anger, fear, sadness, or joy, and emotional IAPS images. We also measured self-reported loneliness, depression, and extraversion levels. Evidence for SFM was found in greater fEMG activity of the zygomaticus and corrugator to positive and negative emotions, respectively. However, individuals reporting higher levels of loneliness lacked SFM for expressions of joy. Loneliness did not affect deliberate mimicry activity to the same expressions, or spontaneous reactions to positive, negative, or neutral IAPS images. Depression and extraversion did not predict any differences in fEMG responses. We argue that impaired automaticity of “smiling back” at another—a faulty interpersonal resonance response—represents a pervasive behavioral mechanism that likely contributes to negative social and emotional consequences of loneliness and may facilitate loneliness contagion.

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Emotions Under the Skin

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000147 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 161-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Catarina Silva ◽

Ana Cláudia Ferreira ◽

Isabel Soares ◽

Francisco Esteves

Keyword(s):

Attachment Style ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

The Other ◽

Regulatory Function ◽

Physiological Reactivity ◽

Emotional Stimuli ◽

Skin Conductance Responses ◽

Lower Accuracy ◽

Emotional Pictures ◽

Valence And Arousal

Abstract. The present study examined physiological reactivity to emotional stimuli as a function of attachment style. Skin conductance responses (SCRs) and heart rate (HR) changes were simultaneously recorded while participants engaged in a visual attentional task. The task included positive, neutral, and negative emotional pictures, and required the identification of a target (neutral picture rotated 90° to the left or right), among a stream of pictures in which an emotional distracter (positive or negative) was presented. Participants additionally rated each of the emotional distracters for valence and arousal. Behavioral results on the attentional task showed that positive pictures facilitated overall target detection for all participants, compared to negative and neutral pictures, and that anxiously attached participants had significantly lower accuracy scores, relative to the other groups. Affective ratings indicated that positive pictures were rated as being more pleasant than negative ones, although no differences were found in HR changes to picture valence. In contrast, negative pictures were evaluated as being highly arousing. Consistent with this, negative pictures elicited larger SCRs in both insecure anxious and avoidant groups, especially for the anxious while the secure group showed SCRs unaffected by stimuli’s arousal. Present results show that individuals with different attachment styles reveal distinct patterns of attentional bias, appraisal, and physiological reactivity toward emotionally arousing stimuli. These findings further highlight the regulatory function of the attachment system.

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