Psychophysiology of positive and negative emotions, dataset of 1157 cases and 8 biosignals

• Published in: Scientific data Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 10
• Main Authors: Behnke, Maciej, Buchwald, Mikołaj, Bykowski, Adam, Kupiński, Szymon, Kaczmarek, Lukasz D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 20.01.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/443/592; 631/477; 706/689/477; Blood pressure; Data Descriptor; Databases, Factual; Datasets; EKG; Emotions; Emotions - physiology; Facial Expression; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; multidisciplinary; Physiology; Psychophysiology; Respiration; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Self Report; Skin; Young Adult
• ISSN: 2052-4463; 2052-4463
• DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01117-0

Subjective experience and physiological activity are fundamental components of emotion. There is an increasing interest in the link between experiential and physiological processes across different disciplines, e.g., psychology, economics, or computer science. However, the findings largely rely on sample sizes that have been modest at best (limiting the statistical power) and capture only some concurrent biosignals. We present a novel publicly available dataset of psychophysiological responses to positive and negative emotions that offers some improvement over other databases. This database involves recordings of 1157 cases from healthy individuals (895 individuals participated in a single session and 122 individuals in several sessions), collected across seven studies, a continuous record of self-reported affect along with several biosignals (electrocardiogram, impedance cardiogram, electrodermal activity, hemodynamic measures, e.g., blood pressure, respiration trace, and skin temperature). We experimentally elicited a wide range of positive and negative emotions, including amusement, anger, disgust, excitement, fear, gratitude, sadness, tenderness, and threat. Psychophysiology of positive and negative emotions (POPANE) database is a large and comprehensive psychophysiological dataset on elicited emotions. Measurement(s) affect • hemodynamic measures • electrodermal activity • fingertip skin temperature • Respiratory Pattern Technology Type(s) electronic rating scale • electrocardiography • impedance cardiography • hemodynamic measurement • electrodermal activity measurement • skin temperature sensor • Piezo-electric belt Factor Type(s) elicited emotion Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens Sample Characteristic - Environment laboratory environment Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17061512