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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Emot. 2005 May 1;19(3):313–332. doi: 10.1080/02699930441000238

TABLE 1.

Modal and mean self-reported emotion for film clips

Emotion Film clip
Penguins Nature Sticks Witness Cliffhanger
Amusement
 Mode 7 0 0 0 0
 Mean 5.33 2.57 2.69 2.22 2.76
  (SD) (2.36) (2.38) (2.11) (2.19) (2.40)
Anger
 Mode 0 0 0 8 0
 Mean 0.24 0.19 1.19 6.00 1.95
  (SD) (0.82) (0.74) (1.76) (2.36) (2.29)
Anxiety
 Mode 0 0 0 5 8
 Mean 0.48 0.67 1.62 4.20 5.18
  (SD) (1.27) (1.41) (2.07) (2.56) (2.72)
Contentment
 Mode 0 4, 7 0 0 0
 Mean 3.62 4.60 2.24 1.17 0.83
  (SD) (2.51) (2.41) (1.94) (1.58) (1.46)
Disgust
 Mode 0 0 0 8 0
 Mean 0.38 0.26 1.10 6.07 1.93
  (SD) (1.15) (0.73) (1.81) (2.07) (2.34)
Fear
 Mode 0 0 0 0 7
 Mean 0.12 0.10 0.40 2.02 5.00
  (SD) (0.63) (0.30) (0.96) (2.02) (2.78)
Happiness
 Mode 5 4 0 0 0
 Mean 4.19 4.46 2.14 1.29 0.88
  (SD) (2.49) (2.27) (1.79) (1.83) (1.47)
Sadness
 Mode 0 0 0 0 0
 Mean 0.19 0.95 0.33 3.56 2.59
  (SD) (0.71) (2.02) (0.75) (2.83) (2.68)
Serenity
 Mode 0 4, 6, 7, 8 0 0 0
 Mean 2.12 4.86 1.69 0.93 0.68
  (SD) (2.01) (2.65) (2.01) (1.63) (1.27)

Note: N = 42 for Penguin, Nature, and Sticks; N = 41 for Witness and Cliffhanger. Ratings were made on a 9-point scale, ranging from 0 = none to 8 = a great deal.