Table 1 Scenarios assigned to emotion categories.

From: Professional actors demonstrate variability, not stereotypical expressions, when portraying emotional states in photographs

Emotion category

Number scenarios

Intensity rating

F

df

Value of contrast

t

Amusement

24

2.40 (0.78)

28.70**

12, 299

25.71

16.42**

Anger

128

3.04 (0.87)

144.48**

12, 1651

29.81

31.87**

Awe

2

2.00 (2.83)

0.77

12, 13

20.00

1.87*

Contempt

11

1.82 (0.64)

17.07**

12, 130

19.59

12.05**

Disgust

24

2.77 (0.91)

29.97**

12, 299

27.85

14.19**

Embarrassment

38

2.78 (0.98)

39.34**

12, 481

27.45

16.83**

Fear

94

3.31 (0.82)

108.29**

12, 1209

34.35

31.32**

Happiness

64

3.16 (0.80)

127.29**

12, 819

31.01

26.11**

Interest

63

2.63 (0.76)

86.88**

12, 806

28.27

29.33**

Pride

19

2.42 (1.29)

21.18**

12, 234

25.18

12.08**

Sadness

50

3.29 (0.89)

52.74**

12, 637

32.41

20.05**

Shame

9

3.50 (0.50)

22.69**

12, 104

32.67

10.45**

Surprise

78

2.88 (0.70)

51.44**

12, 1001

28.57

22.89**

  1. Note: Scenarios were rated for their ability to evoke 13 different emotional states using an unambiguous Likert scale23, in which participants first indicated whether the stimulus-evoked a given emotion (“yes” or “no”) and then, if “yes”, rated the intensity of that emotion on a scale of 1 (slightly) to 4 (intensely). Intensity ratings are means and (standard deviations) of median ratings for corresponding emotion words. A series of one-way ANOVAs with planned orthogonal contrasts confirmed category assignment; the degrees of freedom (df) for the t-test are the same as the denominator df for the F-test. On average, each emotion category contained 46.46 scenarios (SD = 37.60). **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
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