CROWD-5e: A Croatian psycholinguistic database of affective norms for five discrete emotions

A shared structure for emotion experiences from narratives, videos, and everyday life

“…For instance, discrete emotions have been reported to account for variance that is not captured by the standard valence and arousal scales—but on studies of response times to single words, 34 which are a very different dependent measure in a very different task context than self-report of subjective feelings. Of course, all stimuli can be rated on discrete emotions, and such databases (including the ones we used for narratives 18 and videos, 10 as well as a number of others for single words in a range of different languages 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 ) provide complementary characterizations of stimuli on discrete emotion labels beyond standard affective dimensions, such as valence and arousal. In fact, we included both discrete emotions and dimensional features in the present study and asked whether such emotion labels and the concepts they denote, when applied specifically to emotion experience as induced by potent stimuli, reveal a more continuous dimensional space or discrete clusters.…”