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Ratings For Emotion Film Clips, Crystal A. Cabert-Quillen, Ellen E. Bartolini, Benjamin T. Abravanel, Charles A. Sanislow
Ratings For Emotion Film Clips, Crystal A. Cabert-Quillen, Ellen E. Bartolini, Benjamin T. Abravanel, Charles A. Sanislow
Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.
Film clips are widely utilized to elicit emotion in a variety of research studies. Normative ratings for scenes selected for these purposes support the idea that selected clips correspond to the intended target emotion, but studies reporting normative ratings are limited. Using an ethnically diverse sample of college undergraduates, selected clips were rated for intensity, discreteness, valence, and arousal. Variables hypothesized to affect the perception of stimuli (i.e., gender, race–ethnicity, and familiarity) were also examined. Our analyses generally indicated that males reacted strongly to positively valenced film clips, whereas females reacted more strongly to negatively valenced film clips. Caucasian participants …