Loving Videos: A New Paradigm to Elicit Strong Positive Emotions
conference paper
Eliciting emotions in a laboratory environment is difficult, especially when it concerns strong positive emotions. Over the last few decades, affect-eliciting videos to evoke both positive and negative emotions have been used in the study of emotions. However, consistently and reliably eliciting strong positive emotions through the use of film clips is challenging. A meta-analysis examining the effectiveness of films to induce positive and negative emotional states found a larger effect size for levels of reported arousal and affective valence in videos designed to evoke negative emotions (such as fear and disgust) than videos designed to induce positive emotions (Fernandez-Aguila, 2019). We developed a paradigm to systematically produce video stimuli to participants designed to induce strong positive emotion in a controlled manner.
TNO Identifier
1013469
Publisher
Society for Neuroadaptive Technology
Source title
The Third Neuroadaptive Technology Conference, NAT 2022, October 9 – October 12, 2022,Lübbenau, Germany
Place of publication
S.L.
Pages
97-99