Table 2.

Description of the film clips.

Film title	Target emotion	Content description	Reference	Intensity of target emotion	Valence	Post hoc analyses
Gran Torino	Anger	A boy is attacked by a gang of young men and is tortured by them	Eastwood (31)	M = 6.16, SD = 2.38	M = 7.16, SD = 1.70	Compared to fear: t50 = 4.31, p < 0.001
The Champ	Sadness	A little boy cries over his father’s dead body	Zeffirelli (32); Gross and Levenson (28); Hewig et al. (29); Rottenberg et al. (26)	M = 7.26, SD = 2.48	M = 6.78, SD = 1.81	Compared to fear: t49 = 15.01, p < 0.001
Christiane F. – we children from Bahnhof Zoo	Disgust	Two young adults sniff cocaine; the girl vomits	Edel (33)	M = 7.32, SD = 2.81	M = 7.88, SD = 1.69	Compared to sadness: t49 = 9.11, p < 0.001
Peas at 5:30	Fear	A blind man walks along the roof of a high rise building, impending to fall any time	Buechel (34)	M = 4.90, SD = 2.57	M = 5.78, SD = 1.20	Compared to boredom: t50 = 5.52, p < 0.001
Delicatessen	Happiness	A father brings out amazement in his two sons by showing them various tricks with soap bubbles	Jeunet and Caro (35)	M = 5.82, SD = 1.85	M = 2.18, SD = 1.42	Compared to boredom: t49 = 6.62, p < 0.001
All the President’s Men	Neutral	Two men have a conversation in a courtroom	Pakula (36); Hewig et al. (29)	M = 6.18, SD = 1.90	M = 4.25, SD = 1.46	Compared to amusement: t50 = 13.01, p < 0.001

Scaling: valence (0 = “very pleasant,” 9 = “very unpleasant”), intensity (0 = “not at all intensive”, 9 = “most intensive”).

M, mean; SD, standard deviation.