Development and Validation of Verbal Emotion Vignettes in Portuguese, English, and German

Author(s)

Wingenbach, Tanja S. H. ^[1] ; Morello, Leticia Y. ^[1] ; Hack, Ana L. ^[1] ; Boggio, Paulo S. ^[1]

Affiliation

^[1] Univ Prebiteriana Mackenzie, Social & Cognit Neurosci Lab, Ctr Biol & Hlth Sci, Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY; v. 10, JUN 14 2019.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

Everyday human social interaction involves sharing experiences verbally and these experiences often include emotional content. Providing this context generally leads to the experience of emotions in the conversation partner. However, most emotion elicitation stimulus sets are based on images or film-sequences providing visual and/or auditory emotion cues. To assimilate what occurs within social interactions, the current study aimed at creating and validating verbal emotion vignettes as stimulus set to elicit emotions (anger, disgust, fear, sadness, happiness, gratitude, guilt, and neutral). Participants had to mentally immerse themselves in 40 vignettes and state which emotion they experienced next to the intensity of this emotion. The vignettes were validated on a large sample of native Portuguese-speakers (N = 229), but also on native English-speaking (N = 59), and native German-speaking (N = 50) samples to maximise applicability of the vignettes. Hierarchical cluster analyses showed that the vignettes mapped clearly on their target emotion categories in all three languages. The final stimulus sets each include 4 vignettes per emotion category plus 1 additional vignette per emotion category which can be used for task familiarisation procedures within research. The high agreement rates on the experienced emotion in combination with the medium to large intensity ratings in all three languages suggest that the stimulus sets are suitable for application in emotion research (e.g., emotion recognition or emotion elicitation). (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/50282-5 - Positive psychology and neuroscience: translational research to promote well-being and emotional regulation
• Grantee: Emma Otta
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Centers in Engineering Program
• FAPESP's process: 16/19277-0 - Effect of physical touch on the hands in perception about the welfare of others
• Grantee: Beatriz de Oliveira Ribeiro
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• FAPESP's process: 17/00738-0 - Research Centre on Welfare and Human Behavior
• Grantee: Tanja Stefanie Helga Wingenbach
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 16/19167-0 - Effect of sharing previous experiences in the allocation of resources in the ultimatum game
• Grantee: Caroline Kimie Nakao
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation