The Creative Act as a Mode of Research: Ten Emotions - Ten Films

Art and science often face each other as antipodes in the academic world. They differ fundamentally in their methodical approach. Artistic work aims at the precise analysis and understanding of subjective thoughts and feelings. In contrast, science is theory-driven and focused on objective findings and generalizable results. This archive was created to bring both into discourse. It includes: - A description of a an artistic-research process that explored the understanding of ten emotions (Zeißig, A. (2018). The Creative Act as a Mode of Research: Ten Emotions - Ten Films. Weinböhla: edition neuhaus. http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4852). - A database of ten developed videos exploring the emotions of boredom, revulsion, sadness, pain, fear, haste, aggression, comfort, joy and equanimity (Zeißig, A. (2018). Database of Ten Emotions - Ten Films. Weinböhla: edition neuhaus. http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4851). - The result of a first empirical study to investigate the induction of intended emotions (Zeißig, A. (2019-07-17). Ten Emotions - Ten Films [Poster presentation]. International Society for Research on Emotion Conference, University of Amsterdam. PsychArchives. http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4853). The project is looking for interested researchers and collaborations to further test the videos. Since the videos are language-free and free of culture or time specific elements, narration or dramaturgy it would be interesting to cooperate transnationally and international to discuss the development of culture-free emotion induction methods.

Video-clips are among the most effective tools to induce emotions (Schleicher, 2009). However, the availability of methods inducing specific emotional states is described as desolate (Janke & Weyers, 2008). Videos for given target emotions are seldom (Rottenberg, Ray & Gross, 2007) or rely on narrative action, and their content and dramaturgy are not free of country, culture, time, or language specific elements (Schleicher, 2009). The first part of this interdisciplinary work was to use an artistic process to explore ten emotions (boredom, revulsion, sadness, pain, fear, haste, aggression, comfort, joy, even-mindedness). In result, ten video films were developed. Content and dramaturgy of the video-clips are free of language, country, culture, or time specific elements. The second part was an empiric study. Three of the developed video films and a control condition were used to check the induction of the intended emotions (boredom, joy, equanimity, concentration). 94 students participated in four different groups. Participants in each group got 6 min of intervention. According to post-hoc ratings, the emotion induction was partly successful: Video clips evoked joy and boredom, and participants in the concentration condition felt focused; but watching the equanimity resulted in various feelings. All the ten films are now available for further empiric research.