scholarly journals Database of Emotional Videos from Ottawa (DEVO)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylee T. Ack Baraly ◽  
Lydia Muyingo ◽  
Christine Beaudoin ◽  
Sanaz Karami ◽  
Melina Langevin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
International Affective Picture System ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Static Images ◽  
Valence And Arousal

We present a collection of emotional video clips that can be used in ways similar to static images (e.g., the International Affective Picture System, IAPS; Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 2008). The Database of Emotional Videos from Ottawa (DEVO) includes 291 brief video clips (mean duration = 5.42 s; SD = 2.89 s; range = 3–15 s) extracted from obscure sources to reduce their familiarity and to avoid influencing participants’ emotional responses. In Study 1, ratings of valence and arousal (measured with the Self Assessment Manikins from IAPS) and impact (Croucher, Calder, Ramponi, Barnard, & Murphy, 2011) were collected from 154 participants (82 women; mean age = 19.88 years; SD = 2.83 years), in a between-subjects design to avoid potential halo effects across the three ratings (Saal, Downey, & Lahey, 1980). Ratings collected online in a new set of 124 students with a within-subjects design (Study 2) were significantly correlated with the original sample’s. The clips were unfamiliar, having been seen previously by fewer than 2% of participants on average. The ratings consistently revealed the expected U-shaped relationships between valence and arousal/impact, and a strong positive correlation between arousal and impact. Hierarchical cluster analysis of the Study 1 ratings suggested seven groups of clips varying in valence, arousal, and impact, although the Study 2 ratings suggested five groups of clips. These clips should prove useful for a wide range of research on emotion and behaviour.

scholarly journals Effect of congruence between sound and video on heart rate and self-reported measures of emotion

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-631
Author(s):  
Sebastián Calderón ◽  
Raúl Rincón ◽  
Andrés Araujo ◽  
Carlos Gantiva
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Bimodal Stimulus ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
Valence And Arousal

Most studies of emotional responses have used unimodal stimuli (e.g., pictures or sounds) or congruent bimodal stimuli (e.g., video clips with sound), but little is known about the emotional response to incongruent bimodal stimuli. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of congruence between auditory and visual bimodal stimuli on heart rate and self-reported measures of emotional dimension, valence and arousal. Subjects listened to pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant sounds, accompanied by videos with and without content congruence, and heart rate was recorded. Dimensions of valence and arousal of each bimodal stimulus were then self-reported. The results showed that heart rate depends of the valence of the sounds but not of the congruence of the bimodal stimuli. The valence and arousal scores changed depending on the congruence of the bimodal stimuli. These results suggest that the congruence of bimodal stimuli affects the subjective perception of emotion.

scholarly journals Emotional dimensions in people with aggressive behavior: differential responses to affective visual stimuli

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Gantiva ◽  
Erwin Estupiñan ◽  
Ingrid Montaña ◽  
María Sierra ◽  
Eva Zocadegui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Aggression ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
International Affective Picture System ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Emotional Interaction ◽  
Aggression Questionnaire ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Affective Visual Stimuli

INTRODUCTION: The emotional interaction between personal attributes and the environment is a key element to understand aggression. This study identified emotional responses of people with different aggressive traits to pictures with a specific affective content.METHODS:Three hundred fifteen individuals were divided into five groups according to their scores on the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, which consists of 24 pictures of the International Affective Picture System that depict aggression, the suffering of others, filial situations, and sexual content. Each picture was evaluated for valence, arousal, and dominance using the Self-Assessment Manikin scale.RESULTS:Sexual pictures were more appetitive and associated with more arousal in the groups of individuals with some aggression-related dimension than in the non-aggressive group.CONCLUSIONS: A strong interaction was found between aggressive traits (e.g., verbal aggression, physical aggression, anger, and hostility) and pictures with a sexual content. This interaction is decisive in understanding the later phases of aggressive behaviors and sexual aggression.

scholarly journals The EmojiGrid as a rating tool for the affective appraisal of touch

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Toet ◽  
Jan B.F. van Erp
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Social Touch ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Olfactory Stimuli ◽  
Valence And Arousal ◽  
Study Participants

In this study we evaluate the convergent validity of a new graphical self-report tool (the EmojiGrid) for the affective appraisal of perceived touch events. The EmojiGrid is a square grid labeled with facial icons (emoji) showing different levels of valence and arousal. The EmojiGrid is language independent and efficient (a single click suffices to report both valence and arousal), making it a practical instrument for studies on affective appraisal. We previously showed that participants can intuitively and reliably report their affective appraisal (valence and arousal) of visual, auditory and olfactory stimuli using the EmojiGrid, even without additional (verbal) instructions. However, because touch events can be bidirectional and dynamic, these previous results cannot be generalized to the touch domain. In this study, participants reported their affective appraisal of video clips showing different interpersonal (social) and object-based touch events, using either the validated 9-point SAM (Self-Assessment Mannikin) scale or the EmojiGrid. The valence ratings obtained with the EmojiGrid and the SAM are in excellent agreement. The arousal ratings show good agreement for object-based touch and moderate agreement for social touch. For social touch and at more extreme levels of valence, the EmojiGrid appears more sensitive to arousal than the SAM. We conclude that the EmojiGrid can also serve as a valid and efficient graphical self-report instrument to measure human affective response to a wide range of (possibly mediated) tactile signals.

scholarly journals Socio-affective touch expression database

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haemy Lee Masson ◽  
Hans Op de Beeck
Keyword(s):  
Affective Computing ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Affective Touch ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Social Touch ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
Behavioural Experiments ◽  
Valence And Arousal

AbstractSocio-affective touch communication conveys a vast amount of information about emotions and intentions in social contexts. In spite of the complexity of the socio-affective touch expressions we use daily, previous studies addressed only a few aspects of social touch mainly focusing on hedonics, such as stroking, leaving a wide range of social touch behaviour unexplored. To overcome this limit, we present the Socio-Affective Touch Expression Database (SATED), which includes a large range of dynamic interpersonal socio-affective touch events varying in valence and arousal. The original database contained 26 different social touch expressions each performed by three actor pairs. To validate each touch expression, we conducted two behavioural experiments investigating perceived naturalness and affective values. Based on the rated naturalness, 13 socio-affective touch expressions along with 12 corresponding non-social touch events were selected as a complete set, achieving 75 video clips in total. Moreover, we quantified motion energy for each touch expression to investigate its intrinsic correlations with perceived affective values and its similarity among actor-and action-pairs. As a result, the touch expression database is not only systematically defined and well-controlled, but also spontaneous and natural, while eliciting clear affective responses. This database will allow a fine-grained investigation of complex interpersonal socio-affective touch in the realm of social psychology and neuroscience along with potential application areas in affective computing and neighbouring fields.

scholarly journals EMOCIJAS SUKELIANČIŲ VAIZDŲ VERTINIMAS SKIRTINGOSE MĖNESINIŲ CIKLO FAZĖSE

Psichologija ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Laura Mačiukaitė ◽  
Ramunė Grikšienė ◽  
Osvaldas Rukšėnas
Keyword(s):  
Menstrual Cycle ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
International Affective Picture System ◽  
Experimental Session ◽  
Extensive Investigation ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
17Β Estradiol ◽  
Valence And Arousal

 Šiame tyrime analizavome mėnesinių ciklo fazės ir lyties įtaką emocijas sukeliančių vaizdų vertinimui. 30 universiteto studentų (18 moterų ir 12 vyrų) buvo tiriami keturis kartus. Moterims eksperimento dienos buvo parinktos taip, kad atitiktų folikulinę, ovuliacijos, geltonkūnio ir vėlyvojo geltonkūnio mėnesinių ciklo fazes, o vyrai eksperimentuose dalyvavo moterų fazes atitinkančiais laiko intervalais. Moterų ciklo fazėms patvirtinti buvo matuojama 17β-estradiolio ir progesterono koncentracija seilėse. Tyrimo metu įvairaus patrauklumo emocijas sukeliantys vaizdai iš Tarptautinės emocijas sukeliančių vaizdų siste­mos (IAPS) buvo vertinami valentingumo ir emocinio jaudulio aspektais. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad skirtingo patrauklumo vaizdų vertinimas vyrų grupėje nepriklauso nuo eksperimento dienos, o moterų priklauso nuo mėnesinių ciklo fazės. Patrauklių vaizdų vertinimas moterų grupėje teigiamai koreliuoja su 17β-estradiolio koncentracija ir pasižymi didžiausiais valentingumo balais ovuliacijos fazėje ir neigia­mai koreliuoja su progesterono koncentracija ir pasižymi mažiausiais valentingumo balais geltonkūnio fazėje. Atstumiančius vaizdus visose mėnesinių ciklo fazėse (išskyrus geltonkūnio fazę) moterys vertino mažesniais valentingumo ir didesniais emocinio jaudulio balais nei vyrai.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: emocijos, lytiniai hormonai, mėnesinių ciklas, IAPS.Estimation of affective pictures in different phases of menstrual cycleLaura Mačiukaitė, Ramunė Grikšienė, Osvaldas Rukšėnas SummaryDespite extensive investigation and increasing interest in gender differences of cognitive abilities and emotional processing, more questions than answers still remain. There are accumulating data that sex steroid hormones have a strong effect on the functioning of the central nervous system. However, data concerning the effects of these hormones on emotional processing in both genders and during different phases of women’s menstrual cycle are scarce and contradictory.The aim of our study was to investigate how gender and the phase of menstrual cycle influence the evaluation of affective pictures with different attractiveness. Thirty university students (12 men and 18 women), mean age 23.1 ± 2.4 years, participated in this study. Thirty-six images were selected from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) and grouped into four sets of nine photographs each: three attractive, three neutral, three antipathetic. All subjects participated in four experimental sessions. Images were selected to represent all affective levels (from the least pleasant and arousing to the most pleasant and arousing) during each experimental session. Women were investigated during follicular, ovulatory, luteal and late luteal phases of menstrual cycle confirmed by salivary 17β-estradiol and progesterone assessment. Intervals between men’s experimental sessions corresponded to women’s inter-session intervals determined by phases. The task for subjects was to rate the pictures in valence and arousal dimensions using the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) instrument.The study revealed that women estimated affective pictures with a higher valence (t = 2.72, p < 0.01) and a lower arousal (t = –5.70, p < 0.001) than men. The rating of affective images by men was stabile and independent of experimental day. Women rated pictures depending on the phase of menstrual cycle. Attractive pictures were rated as the most pleasant and arousing (statistically significant differences as compared to other phases and men) during the ovulatory (high 17β-estradiol) phase. The rating of neutral pictures did not depend on the phase of the menstrual cycle (except follicular). The rating of antipathetic pictures was less dependent on the phase of menstrual cycle, and in all cases (except luteal, high progesterone phase) these pictures were rated as less pleasant (t = –8.22, p < 0.01) and more arousing (t = 3.85, p < 0.01) as compared to estimates done by men.Key words: emotions, sex steroids, menstrual cycle, IAPS.

scholarly journals Distinguishing Emotional Responses to Photographs and Artwork Using a Deep Learning-Based Approach

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (24) ◽  
pp. 5533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heekyung Yang ◽  
Jongdae Han ◽  
Kyungha Min
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Coordinate System ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Emotion Model ◽  
Valence And Arousal ◽  
Electroencephalogram Eeg

Visual stimuli from photographs and artworks raise corresponding emotional responses. It is a long process to prove whether the emotions that arise from photographs and artworks are different or not. We answer this question by employing electroencephalogram (EEG)-based biosignals and a deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based emotion recognition model. We employ Russell’s emotion model, which matches emotion keywords such as happy, calm or sad to a coordinate system whose axes are valence and arousal, respectively. We collect photographs and artwork images that match the emotion keywords and build eighteen one-minute video clips for nine emotion keywords for photographs and artwork. We hired forty subjects and executed tests about the emotional responses from the video clips. From the t-test on the results, we concluded that the valence shows difference, while the arousal does not.

Feedback as a form of control in a technogenic educational environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
I. V. Kharlamenko ◽  
V. V. Vonog
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Bring Your Own Device ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Automated Control ◽  
Wide Range

The article is devoted to control and feedback in foreign language teaching in a technogenic environment. The educational process is transformed in terms of the implementation and active use of digital technologies. ICT-rich environment provides new models of interaction between the teacher, students and digital tools. It also enriches the diversity of tasks and expands the range of possible forms of control and feedback. According to the authors, automated evaluation takes place both in out-of-classroom activities and directly in the classroom using Bring Your Own Device technology (BYOD). Automated control contributes to the intensity of the educational process. It provides all the participants with an opportunity to choose a convenient mode of work and get instant feedback, thereby allowing self-assessment and self-reflection of their own actions. When teaching foreign languages, special attention should be paid to chatbot technology. Chatbots imitate human actions and are able to perform standard repetitive tasks. The growing popularity of bots is explained by a wide range of usage spheres and the ability to integrate chatbots into social networks and mobile technologies. In the technogenic educational environment, ICT can be the basis for interaction, co-editing and peer assessment in collaborative projects. In this case, students receive feedback not only from the teacher, but also from other students, which increases the motivation for independent learning. Thus, automated control, self-assessment and peer assessment can both identify problem areas for each student and design an individual learning path, which increases the effectiveness of learning a foreign language.

scholarly journals Induced Empathy Moderates Emotional Responses to Expressive Qualities in Music

2020 ◽  
pp. 102986492097472
Author(s):  
Katherine O’Neill ◽  
Hauke Egermann
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Valence And Arousal ◽  
Experimental Group

Recent research has explored the role of empathy in the context of music listening. Here, through an empathy priming paradigm, situational empathy was shown to act as a causal mechanism in inducing emotion, although the way empathy was primed had low levels of ecological validity. We therefore conducted an online experiment to explore the extent to which information about a composer’s expressive intentions when writing a piece of music would significantly affect the degree to which participants reportedly empathise with the composer and in turn influence emotional responses to expressive music. A total of 229 participants were randomly assigned to three groups. The experimental group read short texts describing the emotions felt by the composer during the process of composition. To control for the effect of text regardless of its content, one control group read texts describing the characteristics of the music they were to hear, and a second control group was not given any textual information. Participants listened to 30-second excerpts of four pieces of music, selected to express emotions from the four quadrants of the circumplex theory of emotion. Having heard each music excerpt, participants rated the valence and arousal they experienced and completed a measure of situational empathy. Results show that situational empathy in response to music is significantly associated with trait empathy. As opposed to those in the control conditions, participants in the experimental group responded with significantly higher levels of situational empathy. Receiving this text significantly moderated the effect of the expressiveness of stimuli on induced emotion, indicating that it induced empathy. We conclude that empathy can be induced during music listening through the provision of information about the specific emotions of a person relating to the music. These findings contribute to an understanding of the psychological mechanisms that underlie emotional responses to music.

Validierung und Normierung von kindgerechten, standardisierten Bildmotiven aus dem International Affective Picture System

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bodo Müller ◽  
Britta Winter ◽  
Anette Schürkens ◽  
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann ◽  
Sabine Herpertz
Keyword(s):  
International Affective Picture System ◽  
Self Assessment

Zusammenfassung: Fragestellung: Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung war die Validierung und Normierung einer Auswahl von Bildmotiven aus dem International Affective Picture System von Lang ( CSEA-NIMH, 1999 ; Lang et al., 1999 ) bezüglich der Dimensionen Arousal und Valenz an 57 Jungen und 63 Mädchen im Alter zwischen sechs und zwölf Jahren. Methodik: 18 Bildmotive mit jeweils sechs positiven, sechs negativen und sechs neutralen Reizen wurden Kindern im Alter zwischen sechs und zwölf Jahren präsentiert. Die Kinder bewerteten mit Hilfe des Self-Assessment-Manikin (SAM; Lang et al., 1980 ; Bradley et al., 1994 ), einer visuellen Analogskala, die Bildmotive in Bezug auf die Dimensionen Valenz und Arousal. Ergebnisse: Kinder im Alter zwischen sechs und zwölf Jahren sind in der Lage, die dargebotenen Bildmotive ihrem Inhalt nach zu erkennen und diese den Dimensionen Valenz und Arousal adäquat zuzuordnen. Schlussfolgerungen: Mit unserer Auswahl aus dem International Affective Picture System von Lang steht eine Anzahl von standardisierten Bildmotiven zur Verfügung, die zur Affektinduktion z.B. bei psychophysiologischen und bildgebenden Untersuchungen in der Altersgruppe von sechs bis zwölf Jahren geeignet sind.

scholarly journals Brazilian norms for the International Affective Picture System (IAPS): comparison of the affective ratings for new stimuli between Brazilian and North-American subjects

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 270-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Lasaitis ◽  
Rafaela Larsen Ribeiro ◽  
Orlando Francisco Amodeo Bueno
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
International Affective Picture System ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
North Americans ◽  
The North ◽  
Reliable Instrument ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
Normative Ratings

OBJECTIVE: The study presents the Brazilian norms for 240 new stimuli from International Affective Picture System (IAPS), a database of affective images widely used in research, compared to the North-American normative ratings. METHODS: The participants were 448 Brazilian university students from several courses (269 women and 179 men) with mean age of 24.2 (SD = 7.8), that evaluated the IAPS pictures in the valence, arousal and dominance dimensions by the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) scales. Data were compared across the populations by Pearson linear correlation and Student's t-tests. RESULTS: Correlations were highly significant for all dimensions; however, Brazilians' averages for arousal were higher than North-Americans'. CONCLUSIONS: The results show stability in relation to the first part of the Brazilian standardization and they are also consistent with the North-American standards, despite minor differences relating to interpretation of the arousal dimension, demonstrating that IAPS is a reliable instrument for experimental studies in the Brazilian population.

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