Television videotape scenes: Validation of its emotional content

Author(s): Ramirez, B.

Journal/Book: Rev Latinoamer Psicol. 1997; 29: Apartado 92621, Bogota D.E., Colombia. Rev Latinoamer Psicol. 287-301.

Abstract: The emotional content of 90 television videotape escenes was validated. Judges were 56 undergraduate psychology students, all female, 19-25 years old. They observed the scenes and marked in a response scale what emotion was being presented, and the degree of intensity of that emotion. Results were analyzed using an analysis of variance of repited measures. It was found that there were significant differences in the degree of intensity with which the emotions of joy, anger, sadness, fear, and indifference, were represented. A t test was applied in order to compare the highest average result of the most representative emotion of each scene, with the next one; the two most representative scenes of each emotion were selected, in order to be used (in another study) as a way of inducing emotional states. It is recommended the use of scenes specifically produced for the research studies in order to have the ''copyright'' of the videos. Commercial TV scenes are copyright protected. The new videotapes, scientifically validated, can be produced in the same way as psychological tests and other psychometric instruments. The validation process can be used in the evaluation of artistic works.

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Keyword(s): emotion; TV; validation; emotional content and intensity; audiovisual research materials; CULTURAL-DIFFERENCES; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; FILMS; HEMISPHERE

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