Dear Cameen and All

I'm not an expert in psychology but I am very interested given that I am a primary emotional. I did a research to inform my curiosity may be this can help you. (See link)

http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/english/Bib...h/Bibliographie/bodarwe.pd

http://congres-iae2015.sciencesconf.org/58484/document

http://www.academia.edu/7615501/Puozzo_C...ntr%25C3%25A9._E-CRINI_1-1

http://thil-memoirevivante.prd.fr/wp-con...-de-vente-Proposition-d.pd

Hi Cameen,

 I am not sure if this is the sort of thing you are looking for, but the PANAS is a widely used measure of positive and negative affect.

Cheers,

Mitchell.

Watson, D.; Clark, L. A.; Tellegen, A. (1988). "Development and Validation of Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect: The PANAS Scales". Journal of personality and social psychology 54 (6)

Hi Cameen!

Maybe the following link gives you a clue.

http://www.vu-ams.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/Christie___Friedman_2004.pdf

Dear Cameen and All

I'm not an expert in psychology but I am very interested given that I am a primary emotional. I did a research to inform my curiosity may be this can help you. (See link)

http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/english/Bib...h/Bibliographie/bodarwe.pd

http://congres-iae2015.sciencesconf.org/58484/document

http://www.academia.edu/7615501/Puozzo_C...ntr%25C3%25A9._E-CRINI_1-1

http://thil-memoirevivante.prd.fr/wp-con...-de-vente-Proposition-d.pd

Dear Cameen, here is one more:

"Assessing emotion by questionnaire

Publication Type :

Book Chapter

Authors :

Wallbott, H.; Scherer, K. R.; R. Plutchik; H. Kellerman

Abstract :

We attempt to demonstrate the value of a questionnaire approach in assessing subjective emotional experience. Focusing on the subjective report of emotional experience, we compare questionnaire techniques to laboratory emotion induction and field observation..."

http://www.affective-sciences.org/node/470

http://www.affective-sciences.org/system/files/biblio/1989_Wallbott_Plutchik.pdf

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

The following question was copied from "Arvid Kappas Emotion Research" web site and they published the following :

"How can emotions be measured?

To measure emotions depends on how one defines emotion. Some people simply ask their participants, how they feel. This is interesting, but it does not capture a full picture. Somebody might answer that they feel slightly worried, but their heart is beating rapidly. Someone else might blush in response to a question, but report not feeling anything. As discussed on the "What are emotions" page, emotions are now considered to comprise several components, and so measuring emotions involves assessing very different things. For some a questionnaire suffices, for others complex machines are required."...

let me bring to your attention some fine links from RG and somewhere else, hope you find them interesting...

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anyone_have_ideas_for_measuring_fluctuations_in_emotions

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_the_electrodermal_activity_a_trustable_measure_of_emotion_and_attention

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_anyone_recommend_a_questionnaire_that_measures_positive_and_negative_emotions

http://akappas.user.jacobs-university.de/

http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/emotionbook/prospectus.html

Chapter Emotions and the Emotional Valence Afforded by the Virtual Environment

Article Measuring emotional valence to understand the user's experie...

Article Measuring Emotion in Advertising Research Prefrontal Brain Activity

Chapter Measuring emotion: Behavior, feeling, and physiology

Dear Cameen!

I am working on this field. Let me recommend you two articles, I hope you will find them interesting and inspiring. 

Deák A, Csenki L, Révész Gy: Hungarian ratings for the International, EMPIRICAL TEXT AND CULTURE RESEARCH 4: pp. 90-101.

Lang, P., & Bradley, M. M. (2007). The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) in the study of emotion and attention. Handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment, 29.

The twist in these articles that they use a so called Self-Assesment Manikin (SAM), to describe emoitonal stimuli, pictures in this case. But this very simple tol can be used to "measure" any cues that has some emotional valence (and arousal). It is just 3 simple scales for 1 stimuli.

Best regards,

Andrew

 Dear all,

I do appreciate your help. Your recommendations are very helpful to the project I'm working on right now.  Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Cameen

well I am not the right person from psychology or medical field, but i think every emotion have its own impact on brain so study of EEG signals may help i this regard and tools like signal processing can put more focus on analysis of such signals.

See the attached paper for emotions and its measurement.

http://lep.unige.ch/system/files/biblio/2005_Scherer_SSI.pdf

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure."

                                                                       -----   Marian Keyes

Maybe it can be measured indirectly such as with unobtrusive measures, or with directly observable actions or behavior.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Please, see how "Emotional Intelligence" works:

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

..... "MEASURING EMOTIONS Emotions are simply a form of energy that runs through your body like an electrical current. Each emotion has its own measurable energy frequency ..."......

please, see the link for more information.....

http://www.enlightenedfeelings.com/body.html

The technology works with the "Q" sensor, a sensor that can be strapped to the palm and measures emotional arousal or engagement – the emotional response to a particular stimulus, measured in skin conductivity and temperature.

http://in.pcmag.com/software/30677/news/mit-spinoff-attempts-to-measure-your-emotions

Please see the good text for measuring emotions.

Mauss, I. B., & Robinson, M. D. (2009). Measures of emotion: A review. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 209-237. Coan, J. A. & Allen, J. J. B. (Eds.) (2007). The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

See link.

http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/emotionbook/prospectus.html

http://bluehaired.com/corner/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/final-report-assessment-of-existing-tools-for-the-measurement-of-emotions.pdf

Dear all,

I do appreciate your recommendations; they are helpful to my experiment. Thank you very much for your help.

Sincerely,

Cameen

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."

                                               - THOMAS HARDY , ENGLISH NOVELIST

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

Paul Cezanne

Hi Cameen,

There are several ways in which emotions or emotional valence can be measured. With regards to instruments, you could use facial expression analysis to track emotions, which is easily setup with a webcam (and some software). EEG can also be used to show avoidance / approach behavior (Coan and Allen, 2003). It can be quite useful to pair these devices with other instruments to determine the level of emotional arousal (but if you just want valence then facial expression tracking would be best).

In terms of tests or questionnaires you might find the following helpful: Emotional Reactions to External Contingencies Scale (ERECS; Braaten & Rosen, 1997), Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT; Quirin, Kazen & Kuhl, 2009), and the Affect Intensity Scale (AIS; Murphy et al, 1995). But many more exist too – it largely depends on the scenario you’re investigating (in terms of question style, approach, amount of time available etc).

Let me know if you’d like any more explanation with anything, and best of luck!

Dear Dr. Farnsworth,

Thank you very much for your help. The use of webcam sounds interesting; I think I'll try it. I'd like to measure both valence and arousal, and see how they affect retention of the language input. I checked out the recommended tests and questionnaires; they are very helpful to my project. Thank you very much again for your kind help.

Sincerely,

Cameen

Glad to be of help Cameen - I can recommend this guide if you want to get an introduction to facial expression analysis: https://imotions.com/blog/facial-expression-analysis/

Best of luck with your research!

 Hello Cameen,

Your question is not as easy as it seems on the surface - the first thing is to define emotions - there is a very good discussion on the definition of emotion which was launched on Research Gate by Dr, Ramtin Zargari - and you will realise there are many different points of view - see https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_definition_of_emotion?_iepl%5BviewId%5D=5zn1ASK7qToU7a5UfXlrlfhz&_iepl%5Bcontexts%5D%5B0%5D=timeline&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BactivityData%5D%5BactivityId%5D=558a4aa8614325b9448b45c2&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BactivityData%5D%5BactivityType%5D=Answer&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BactivityData%5D%5BactivityTimestamp%5D=1435126440&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BviewType%5D=self&_iepl%5BinteractionType%5D=answerClickThrough#view=558a4aa8614325b9448b45c2

The next step is to decide what aspect of emotion you are interested in and then look for how to measure it. Recent novel research by Nummenmaa, Glerean, Hari & Hietanen, 2013 on somatic experiencing through a method called "body mapping” reveals where people experience different emotions in the body.  Although they were interested in emotions in general, I extracted anger and fear from their results  to see what we can observe and learn and whether this approach might be useful in furthering our understanding of these emotions. 

Good luck with your research - kind regards Tina

Probably , the best way to measure the emotional valency of an individual is by means of perturbation. 

Dear Ms. Lindhard and Mr. Mohanna,

Thank you very much for kindly sharing your thoughts and information. Especially Ms. Lindhard, I read your article "Emotions Including Anger, Bodily Sensations and The 'Living Matrix' " and found it very informative, helpful to my understanding of this matter. I've already checked out the sources you recommended; they gave me some clarity of what more I can add to my project. Thank you very much again for your help.

Sincerely,

Cameen

Hi Cameen

If you are interested in a non-verbal self assessement scale of emotional response, maybe this will help:

http://adsam.com/files/Observations.PDF

Dear Dr. Bouleanu,

I've already checked out the recommended link; the article is very interesting and helpful. Thank you very much for your help.

Sincerely,

Cameen