This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
Researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium are embarking on an interesting mission, and they need the help of willing photographers. What they’re attempting to do is create a database of photos based on how they make the viewer feel. The project and website, dubbed Pictures With Feelings, can then be used to further our knowledge about human emotion and how specific moods come about. Where you folks come is in providing the most emotionally stimulating images buried in your archives.“A picture depicting a huge spider is likely to evoke a feeling of fear and is therefore situated within the left upper quadrant (negative valence – high arousal).”
The researchers want a little bit of everything, or as they define it: photos that evoke emotions from all over the “valence-arousal space.” Pictures of sleepy puppies would evoke happiness and contentment — positive valence, low arousal. Pictures from inside the pipe at a surfing competition, or staring into the mouth of a shark would evoke something closer to fear and excitement — negative valence, high arousal.
“A picture depicting a sleepy kitten is likely to evoke relaxation and contentment and is therefore situated within the right lower quadrant (positive valence – low …
By: DL Cade
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