A preliminary set of text-driven scripts for emotional imagery elicitation
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David Herring, PhD.
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Emotion science hinges on stimulus development representative of emotional life (i.e., ecologically valid by varying emotional content) that have well-established normative data. These normative data are typically measured via pleasantness and activation/arousal ratings toward the emotional stimulus. There are well-established normative ratings for emotional scenes, videos, faces, and audio scripts (Coan & Allen, 2007). There are, however, few normative data available for eliciting emotion with imagery (Bradley & Lang, 2007). Here, we present preliminary data from a norming study. We had two foci: 1) to fill the gap in the emotional imagery literature by developing text-driven scripts varying in emotion content and arousal and 2) to develop a substantial set of imagery scripts to use in an upcoming emotional imagery psycho-physiological study. Thirty five students were presented 133 text-driven scripts varying in hedonic valence. That is, hedonic valence consistent of seven categories: erotica, reward, relaxation, contamination, embarrassment, threat, and mundane/neutral. As predicted, from pleasant to neutral conditions arousal ratings significantly declined and, from neutral to unpleasant, arousal ratings significantly rose (p < .001). Further, from pleasant to neutral to unpleasant, pleasantness ratings significantly rose across hedonic valence (p < .001). Thus, the typical U-shaped and linear patterns for arousal and pleasantness ratings, respectively, were found across seven categories of hedonic valence. These data suggest that our text-driven scripts are evoking the targeted appetitive and defensive states during emotional imagery.
Keywords: Imagery, Emotion, Text-driven Scripts, Arousal, Hedonic Valence, Norming Study
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A preliminary set of text-driven scripts for emotional imagery elicitation
Emotion science hinges on stimulus development representative of emotional life (i.e., ecologically valid by varying emotional content) that have well-established normative data. These normative data are typically measured via pleasantness and activation/arousal ratings toward the emotional stimulus. There are well-established normative ratings for emotional scenes, videos, faces, and audio scripts (Coan & Allen, 2007). There are, however, few normative data available for eliciting emotion with imagery (Bradley & Lang, 2007). Here, we present preliminary data from a norming study. We had two foci: 1) to fill the gap in the emotional imagery literature by developing text-driven scripts varying in emotion content and arousal and 2) to develop a substantial set of imagery scripts to use in an upcoming emotional imagery psycho-physiological study. Thirty five students were presented 133 text-driven scripts varying in hedonic valence. That is, hedonic valence consistent of seven categories: erotica, reward, relaxation, contamination, embarrassment, threat, and mundane/neutral. As predicted, from pleasant to neutral conditions arousal ratings significantly declined and, from neutral to unpleasant, arousal ratings significantly rose (p < .001). Further, from pleasant to neutral to unpleasant, pleasantness ratings significantly rose across hedonic valence (p < .001). Thus, the typical U-shaped and linear patterns for arousal and pleasantness ratings, respectively, were found across seven categories of hedonic valence. These data suggest that our text-driven scripts are evoking the targeted appetitive and defensive states during emotional imagery.
Keywords: Imagery, Emotion, Text-driven Scripts, Arousal, Hedonic Valence, Norming Study