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This site is designed to help behavioral researchers to select film clips in order to induce emotion in a reliable way in the laboratory.

It is based on a study from our laboratory that evaluated a set of 70 emotional film excerpts. The evaluation was desinged in such a way as the experimenter can make a flexible choice of stimuli suitable for a variety of research questions. For this, each film excerpts has been evaluated on 14 different criteria. These criteria are: Intensity, Positive Affect, Negative Affect, Amusement, Tenderness, Anger, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Neutral, as well as 4 factors of a Principal Component Analysis.

The study proceeded as follows : Fifty film experts were asked to remember specific film scenes that elicited fear, anger, sadness, disgust, amusement, tenderness, as well as emotionally neutral scenes. For each emotion, the 10 most frequently mentioned scenes were selected to create a set of 70 film clips. Next, 364 participants viewed the film clips in individual laboratory sessions and rated each film on multiple dimensions. In addition to subtle gender differences, results showed that the film clips were effective with regard to several criteria such as emotional discreteness, intensity, and positive and negative affect. Further, a principal component analysis differentiated two categories of positive films: films eliciting amusement-related feelings and films related to affective attachment. Finally, fourteen validity criterion scores were computed, and each film was given a rank according to these scores.

For more information regarding the study, please down load the manuscript describing it (Click here).
Please not that this manuscript is presently submitted for publication. Do not quote it verbatim.

To access the Excel file giving the scores of each excerpt on the 14 criteria, click here.

To have a description of the criteria used, please see either the manuscript, or the summary by clicking here.

Finally, once you have selected the excerpts that might interest you, you are able to edit them using the editing instructions described here. This file also give you information about the excerpts' duration.

Please, note that it is your responsability to enquire and comply with possible copyright laws that might apply to these films in your country.

If you are using some of the excerpts we tested, please refer to our manscript (presently submitted to Emotion), and to the present web page.

We wish you Great Success in your project.

Last Update of this site : Dec. 23, 2004, by Pierre Philippot (Pierre.Philippot@psp.ucl.ac.be)