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Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients
Cowen, A. S., & Keltner, D. (2017). Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients.
Level D Cross-sectional study doi:10.1073/pnas.1702247114
What this study supports
Supports the claim that reports of experience elicited by the videos were organised into 27 categories with fuzzy boundaries and smooth gradients between them. It concerns the structure of self-report, not of physiology, and the category count depends on the stimuli and methods.
- Who was studied
- Online participants rating reported experiences elicited by 2,185 short videos.
- Design
- Cross-sectional study
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
EmpiricalLevel DConfidence MODERATE
In one large self-report study, experiences elicited by 2,185 short videos were best described by 27 categories whose boundaries were fuzzy and linked by smooth gradients.
- Scope
- Structure of reported experience in response to short videos, in online samples.
- Caveat
- The number of categories depends on stimuli and analysis, and the result has been disputed by constructionist commentators.
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