Department of Psychology, Ege University, Bornova, 35400, Izmir, Turkey.
Department of Psychology, İzmir Bakırçay University, Izmir, Turkey.
Behav Res Methods. 2024 Feb;56(2):529-562. doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-02055-4. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
The primary aim of this study was to test emotion-elicitation levels of widely used film clips in a Turkish sample and to expand existing databases by adding several new film clips with the capacity to elicit a wide range of emotions, including a rarely studied emotion category, i.e., calmness. For this purpose, we conducted a comprehensive review of prior studies and collected a large number of new suggestions from a Turkish sample to select film clips for eight emotion categories: amusement, tenderness, calmness, anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and neutrality. Furthermore, we aimed to assess emotion-eliciting levels of short video clips, mostly taken by amateur video footage. In total, 104 film clips were tested online by rating several affective dimensions. Self-reported emotional experience was assessed in terms of intensity, discreteness, valence, and arousal. It was found that at least one of the existing film clips, most of the new film clips, and the short video clips were successful at eliciting medium to high levels of target emotions. However, we also observed overlaps between certain emotions (e.g., tenderness-sadness, anger-sadness-disgust, or fear-anxiety). The current results are mostly in line with previous databases, suggesting that film clips are efficient at eliciting a wide range of emotions where cultural background might play a role in the elicitation of certain emotions (e.g., amusement, anger, etc.). We hope that this extended emotion-eliciting film clips set (EGEFILM) will provide a rich resource for future emotion research both in Turkey and the international area.
本研究的主要目的是测试在土耳其样本中广泛使用的电影片段的情绪诱发水平，并通过添加几个能够诱发广泛情绪的新电影片段来扩展现有的数据库，包括一个很少研究的情绪类别，即平静。为此，我们对先前的研究进行了全面回顾，并从土耳其样本中收集了大量新的建议，以选择用于八个情绪类别的电影片段：娱乐、温柔、平静、愤怒、悲伤、厌恶、恐惧和中立。此外，我们旨在评估短片的情绪诱发水平，这些短片主要由业余视频片段拍摄。总共有 104 个电影片段通过评分几个情感维度在网上进行了测试。自我报告的情绪体验是根据强度、离散度、效价和唤醒度来评估的。结果发现，至少有一个现有的电影片段、大多数新的电影片段和短视频片段成功地诱发了中等至高强度的目标情绪。然而，我们也观察到某些情绪之间存在重叠（例如，温柔和悲伤、愤怒和悲伤和厌恶，或者恐惧和焦虑）。目前的结果与之前的数据库大多一致，这表明电影片段在诱发广泛的情绪方面非常有效，而文化背景可能在诱发某些情绪（例如，娱乐、愤怒等）方面发挥作用。我们希望这个扩展的情绪诱发电影片段集（EGEFILM）将为土耳其和国际地区的未来情绪研究提供丰富的资源。
