Global Image Properties Predict Ratings of Affective Pictures

A comparison of younger and older adults' self-assessment manikin ratings of affective pictures.

Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) ratings were used to examine whether groups of 21 younger (M age = 20.02 years, SD = 2.28) and 21 older (M age = 66.26 years, SD = 5.64) adults had similar affective experiences to pictures from the International Affective Picture System (Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 1997). The psychometrics of the SAM valence and arousal scales were also compared across age groups. ...

Watching affective Pictures

Bonding Pictures: Affective Ratings Are Specifically Associated to Loneliness But Not to Empathy

Responding to pro-social cues plays an important adaptive role in humans. Our aims were (i) to create a catalog of bonding and matched-control pictures to compare the emotional reports of valence and arousal with the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) pictures; (ii) to verify sex influence on the valence and arousal of bonding and matched-control pictures; (iii) to investigate if emp...

Fearfulness and Affective Evaluations of Pictures

Subjects high and low in temperamental fearfulness made a speeded decision regarding whether each of a series of affective pictures was "unpleasant" or "pleasant." Fearful subjects made faster decisions on unpleasant pictures than did low fear subjects, whereas no difference was found between low and high fear participants when processing pleasant materials. Reaction time differences as a funct...

Predicting Affective Ratings of On-Line Lectures

In a large scale study on 843 transcripts of Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) talks, the authors address the relation between word usage and categorical affective ratings of lectures by a large group of internet users. Users rated the lectures by assigning one or more predefined tags which relate to the affective state evoked in the audience (e. g., ‘fascinating’, ‘funny’, ‘courageous...