I'd like to know what tests are out there apart from the Trier social anxiety test and the cold pressor task. Are there others that elicit negative or positive emotions? Please link any relevant papers.
Hello Karen, seems I will have to rely on answers from this question too because my research aims to identify emotional responses towards advertisements, though I am not using any test but conducting a semi- structured interview to discover consumers' emotional response to advertisements.
The International Affective Picture Slides have been shown to effectively elicit positive and negative emotion with normed rates for both valance and arousal. Treloar and McCarthy 2012 in Addictive Behaviors and Wardell et al., (2012) are great refs for this procedure. The IAPS can be requested on the University of Florida website free of charge.
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If you want to elicit a specific mood in your participants (as I would deduce since you mentioned the TSST and cold pressor, which lead to a long lasting emotional feeling state), than mood induction procedures (MIP) may be what you're searching for:
"Various forms of MIPs have been reported in the literature (see Martin, 1990, Westermann et al., 1996 for discussion), with the “Velten” procedure (Velten, 1968) being the most widely used (e.g. Gerrards-Hesse et al., 1994; Westermann et al., 1996). In this procedure statements about positive or negative self-evaluations or somatic states are presented to the participant and he/she is explicitly instructed to try to feel the mood described by the statement. In general, one can distinguish between MIPs ranging from purely automatic mood (like music) induction to highly cognitive, strategic induction procedures (like imagination) and different combinations of these MIPs with differing effectiveness and validity (for meta-analysis see Gerrards-Hesse et al., 1994; Westermann et al., 1996)." Cited from Kohn et al. 2011.
If you're really searching for something that elicits an emotion (as opposed to mood), than IAPS may be a good picture set, which let's you look at emotional reactivtiy.
Oh, and I nearly forgot, in my view a good measure to test changes in affective state is provided by the PANAS (plus ESR) as for example used in Schneider et al., 1992, reference for PANAS is Watson, D., Clark, L.A., Tellegen, A., 1988. Development and Validation of Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect - the Panas Scales. J Pers Soc Psychol 54, 1063-1070.
hope this helps
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Thank you. These are all really helpful suggestions and thanks so much for the extensive references.
what about emotional adaptation paradigm (well, adaptation causes emotional bias eventually, but not the 'pure' emotion) or priming
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