“…The EmojiGrid was inspired by Russell’s Affect Grid [ 29 ] and was originally developed and validated for the affective appraisal of food stimuli [ 11 , 20 ], since conventional affective self-report tools (e.g., Self-Assessment Manikin [ 43 ]) are frequently misunderstood in that context [ 11 , 20 ]. It has since also successfully been used and validated for the affective appraisal of a wide range of different emotional stimuli, such as images [ 44 ], sound and video clips [ 45 ], touch events [ 46 ], odors [ 47 , 48 , 49 ] and VR experiences [ 50 ]. Since it is intuitive and language-independent, the EmojiGrid is also suitable for cross-cultural research [ 11 , 51 ] and research involving children or low-literate participants.…”