KAPODI- The Searchable Database of 364 Available Emotional Stimuli Sets

Abstract

Emotional stimuli such as images, words, music, speech, or video-clips are often used in studies researching emotion. Over the past decades, new sets have continuously been published and presented to the research community. The immense number of available sets can complicate the task when researchers are looking for suitable stimuli for their study.This paper presents the comprehensive work of the creation of a database currently including 364 stimuli sets published between 1963 and 2020. All included sets are freely available or available upon request. Over 45 aspects, including over 25 key set characteristics such as sort, number and resolution of included stimuli; rating scales; included emotions; age, gender and number of raters; or, age, gender and number of models, have been extracted and listed for each stimuli set. A searchable online version of the database allows users to select specific set characteristics and to find matching stimuli sets accordingly. The KAPODI searchable database facilitates finding of and comparison between individual sets, and therefore provides a useful resource for researchers aiming to access emotional stimuli sets.

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“…We then searched the Image Stimuli section of the KAPODI database for relevant datasets (https://airtable.com/shrnVoUZrwu6riP9b). KAPODI, to the best of our knowledge, is the most comprehensive list of emotional stimuli sets whose validation has gone through the peer-review process (Diconne et al, 2022).…”