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An adequate study of emotions in music and film should be based on the real-time measurement of selfreported data using a continuous-response method. The recording system discussed in this article reflects two important aspects of such research: First, for a better comparison of results, experimental and technical standards for continuous measurement should be taken into account, and second, the recording system should be open to the inclusion of multimodal stimuli. In light of these two considerations, our article addresses four basic principles of the continuous measurement of emotions: (1) the dimensionality of the emotion space, (2) data acquisition (e.g., the synchronization of media and the self-reported data), (3) interface construction for emotional responses, and (4) the use of multiple stimulus modalities. Researcher-developed software (EMuJoy) is presented as a freeware solution for the continuous measurement of responses to different media, along with empirical data from the self-reports of 38 subjects listening to emotional music and viewing affective pictures. Behavior Research Methods
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This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grant Al 269-6) and the Center for Systemic Neurosciences, Hanover, Germany. The EMuJoy software is freeware written in Java, can be used on any platform, and works as well on PCs as on UNIX workstations. It can be downloaded from musicweb.hmt-hannover.de/emujoy/.
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Nagel, F., Kopiez, R., Grewe, O. et al. EMuJoy: Software for continuous measurement of perceived emotions in music. Behavior Research Methods 39, 283–290 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193159
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