TITLE:
Kinematic Elicitation of Basic Emotions: A Validation Study in an Italian Sample
AUTHORS:
Cesare Maffei, Emanuela Roder, Claudia Cortesan, Francesca Passera, Massimo Rossi, Martina Segrini, Raffaele Visintini, Andrea Fossati
KEYWORDS:
Emotion, Measurement, Films, Emotion Elicitation, Cross-Cultural Studies
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.9,
July
22,
2014
ABSTRACT: Video clips
proved to effectively elicit different emotions. Hewig and colleagues
(2005) developed a comprehensive set
collecting 20 emotional film clips and investigated the basic emotions elicited
in a German sample. In this study, we tested the reproducibility of their
findings in Italian nonclinical adult subjects (N = 32) examined individually in an ecological setting; moreover,
the differences between presentation modalities (with and without sound) were
examined. Clips were rated on 10 emotional states (serene, amused, happy,
surprised, sad, scared, angry, disgusted, indignant, tense) and on two bipolar
dimensions of valence and intensity. Only little differences between presentation modalities were found;
stories depicted proved to be clear enough. Film clips elicited the expected
emotional profiles, and their rank order for each emotion is almost comparable
with the German ones. However, all the clips elicited more than one emotion: ANCOVA proved that emotions were
not fully independent and specific association patterns were found.
Implications are discussed in the light of the complexity of emotional
activation.