The Extreme Climate Event Database (EXCEED): Development of a picture database composed of drought and flood stimuli

Magalhães, Sabrina de Sousa; Miranda, Diana Kraiser; Miranda, Débora Marques de; Malloy-Diniz, Leandro Fernandes; Romano-Silva, Marco Aurélio

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0204093

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“…Specifically, stories that were rated more extreme in terms of valence (either more negative or more positive) were also rated as more arousing. This finding is in agreement with many previous studies (Lang & Bradley, 2007;Magalhães et al, 2018;Marchewka et al, 2014;Riegel et al, 2015;Wierzba et al, 2015). Furthermore, negative stories were rated more arousing than positive stories.…”

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“…First, we investigated the distribution of valence and arousal ratings, which are commonly used to characterise emotional stimuli (e.g. Lang & Bradley, 2007;Lehman et al, 2019;Magalhães et al, 2018;Marchewka et al, 2014;Wierzba et al, 2015Wierzba et al, , 2022. Figure 1 presents the pattern of results obtained in Studies 1-3.…”

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“…The first one, the Affective Climate Images Database (Lehman et al, 2019) comprises 320 pictures relevant to climate change. The second one, the Extreme Climate Event Database (EXCEED; Magalhães et al, 2018) consists of 150 pictures depicting natural disasters related to climate change. Finally, yet another one, Climate Visuals (climatevisuals.org; Chapman et al, 2016), is a collection of pictures relevant to climate change selected based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria.…”

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Development and validation of Emotional Climate Change Stories (ECCS) stimuli set

Zaremba¹,

Michałowski²,

Klöckner³

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Climate change is widely recognized as an urgent issue, and the number of people concerned about it is increasing. While emotions are among the strongest predictors of behaviour change in the face of climate change, researchers have only recently begun to investigate this topic experimentally. This may be due to the lack of standardised, validated stimuli that would make studying such a topic in experimental settings possible. Here, we introduce a novel Emotional Climate Change Stories (ECCS) stimuli set. ECCS consists of 180 realistic, short stories about climate change, designed to evoke five distinct emotions - anger, anxiety, compassion, guilt, and hope - in addition to neutral stories. The stories were created based on qualitative data collected in two independent studies: one conducted among individuals highly concerned about climate change, and another one conducted in the general population. The stories were rated on the scales of valence, arousal, anger, anxiety, compassion, guilt, and hope in the course of 3 independent studies. First, we explored the underlying structure of ratings (Study 1; n = 601). Then we investigated the replicability (Study 2; n = 307) and cross-cultural validity (Study 3; n = 346) of ECCS. The collected ratings were highly consistent across the studies. Furthermore, we found that the level of climate change concern explained the intensity of elicited emotions. Altogether, the ECCS dataset is available in Polish, Norwegian and English and can be employed for experimental research on climate communication, environmental attitudes, climate action taking, or mental health and wellbeing.

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Development and validation of Emotional Climate Change Stories (ECCS) stimuli set

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“…Starting from this observation, we aimed to fill the gap by creating a freely accessible database of images showing the most frequent types of natural disasters. It has to be specified that some other databases have been proposed in this context, but they are either not freely accessible or focussed on one or some specific natural hazards (e.g., volcanic activities 1 ), beyond lacking of a large sample validation 2 .…”

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Environmental risks to humans, the first database of valence and arousal ratings for images of natural hazards

2022

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Due to their relevance for the entire society, environmental hazards have largely been investigated in terms of their psychological effects. However, a complete image database comprising different categories of catastrophes has not been proposed yet. We selected 200 photographs of the most frequent natural disasters with the aim to collect the emotional reactions of observers. In particular, 20 stimuli were selected for each of the following 10 categories: earthquake, volcanic activity, lightning, hailstorm, drought, fire, landslide, epidemic, and neutral and positive images as control categories. A sample of 605 participants completed an online survey, in which they were asked to rate either the valence or the arousal of each stimulus, by using a Self-Assessment Manikin. The Environmental Risk to Humans database associates the emotional reactions to these visual stimuli, together with the demographics of the sample (e.g., gender, age, marital status, income, previous experience of natural disasters). The database constitutes a tool to explore human reactions to natural hazards, providing a controlled set of stimuli for different types of catastrophes.

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“…EXCEED (Magalhães et al, 2018) is the only affective image dataset that is exclusively focused on natural disasters although it only includes pictures of drought and flood events. In comparison to many other datasets in our study, it is relatively small with only 150 stimuli but because most of them were related to natural hazards it contributed more photos to our final AFFECTS AND DISASTERS 8 stimuli than other datasets.…”

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Affective Responses to Natural and Technological Disasters; An Evolutionary Perspective

Shapouri¹,

Martin²,

Arhami³

2022

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Anecdotal reports indicate more severe psychological distress following technological catastrophes in comparison to natural disasters. Previous research also suggests a more negative evaluation of the outcomes of disasters if they are manmade. On the other hand, evolutionary neuroscience shows differential neural processing of ancient and modern threats. Building upon this literature, we probed valence and arousal ratings of stimuli depicting natural and technological disasters in several standardized affective stimuli datasets used in neuroscience and psychological research. Our results show that while technological disasters are rated as slightly less arousing than natural disasters they are rated as significantly more unpleasant. The evolutionary age of disasters plays an important role in emotional experiences invoked by these threats which might affect our evaluations of catastrophes. We discuss how evolutionary psychology might explain our findings and help us to better understand the biological and learned roots of our biases in risk perception.

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The Extreme Climate Event Database (EXCEED): Development of a picture database composed of drought and flood stimuli

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Development and validation of Emotional Climate Change Stories (ECCS) stimuli set

Development and validation of Emotional Climate Change Stories (ECCS) stimuli set

Environmental risks to humans, the first database of valence and arousal ratings for images of natural hazards

Affective Responses to Natural and Technological Disasters; An Evolutionary Perspective

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