International Survey On Emotion Antecedents And Reactions (ISEAR) Short description Over a period of many years during the 1990s, a large group of psychologists all over the world collected data in the ISEAR project, directed by Klaus R. Scherer and Harald Wallbott. Student respondents, both psychologists and non-psychologists, were asked to report situations in which they had experienced all of 7 major emotions (joy, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, shame, and guilt). In each case, the questions covered the way they had appraised the situation and how they reacted. The final data set thus contained reports on seven emotions each by close to 3000 respondents in 37 countries on all 5 continents.
The following publications describe the procedures and report the major patterns of results: Wallbott, H.G., & Scherer, K. R. (1986). How universal and specific is emotional experience? Social Science Information, 24, 763-795. Matsumoto, D., Kudoh, T., Scherer, K. R., & Wallbott, H.G. (1988). Antecedents of and reactions to emotions in the US and Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 19, 267-286. Wallbott, H.G., & Scherer, K. R. (1988). Emotion and economic development - Data and speculations concerning the relationships between economic factors and emotional experience. European Journal of Social Psychology, 18, 267-273. Scherer, K. R., & Wallbott, H.G. (1994). Evidence for universality and cultural variation of differential emotion response patterning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 310-328. Scherer, K. R. (1997). Profiles of emotion-antecedent appraisal: testing theoretical predictions across cultures. Cognition and Emotion, 11, 113-150. Scherer, K. R. (1997). The role of culture in emotion-antecedent appraisal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 902-922. Mikula, G., Scherer, K. R., & Athenstaedt, U. (1998). The role of injustice in the elicitation of differential emotional reactions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24(7), 769-783.
For 16 of the 38 countries we were able to obtain transcriptions and English translations of the situation descriptions that the participants reported by writing a short text in their language in the space provided in the questionnaire. These data descriptions can be found in the last column of the Access file. All other information, i.e., background data, and the appraisal and reaction variables, are contained in the columns before that. The meaning of the variables can be lloked up in the following Word document: ISEAR Questionnaire & Codebook.doc This file contains brief explanations of what the variable names mean. In particular, a copy of the questionnaire is reproduced and the variable names, as well as the labels of the different values, are provided in direct correspondence to the questionnaire items. The complete quantitative data set for all of the approx. 3000 participants is provided in the form of an SPSS .sav data file ISEAR SPSS Data File (in the form of a .zip archive) Again, the variable names are explained in the Word document mentioned above. There is one row for each participant. In the first columns you will find the background variables, followed by seven times the set of variables, once for each emotion. Thus the variable name ints3_1 refers to the felt intensity for emotion 3 (anger) while ints5_1 refers to the intensity of emotion 5 (disgust), etc. We hope that this information is sufficient to find one's way through the data set. We would like to again acknowledge our thanks to all the many collaborators who have helped to gather this impressive and unique data set. They all have the status of co-authors of the papers, although, of course, the author line is not sufficiently long to hold all the names. We would like to reproduce the list of all collaborators on this webpahe to render homage to the time and effort that was spent by all of these colleagues to collect these data, often under difficult circumstances (it should be recalled that the world looked differently when the study was run! Which, by the way, should be considered in interpreting the data.)
Elisha Babad, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Eva Baenninger-Huber, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Cleve Barlow, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Marek Cielecki, University of Warsaw, Poland; Cindy Gallois, University of Queensland, Australia; Jo Kleiven, Oppland Regional College, Norway; Jacques Cosnier, University II of Lyon, and Monique Alles-Jardel, University of the Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France; Britt-Marie Drottz, University of Göteburg, Sweden; Heiner Ellgring, Free University of Berlin, Germany; Alfonso Jimenez- Fernandez and Jose Miguel Fernandez-Dols, Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain (J.M. Fernandez-Dols especially for his help in collecting the data in Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Chile, and El Salvador: Within these countries we extend our thanks to: Mirta Gonzalez (Costa Rica), Otto E. Gilbert (Guatemala), Isabel de Villanueva (Honduras), Rolando Diaz-Loving (Mexico), Ignacio Martin (El Salvador), Angelica Gonzalez and Gonzalo Zaror (Chile), and Pedro R. Rodriguez (Venezuela); Tsutomu Kudoh, University of Osaka, Japan; Hing-Keung Ma, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; David Matsumoto, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Silvia Maurer-Lane and Silvia Friedman, Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Alastair Mundy- Castle, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Rauni Myllyniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland; Usha S. Naidu, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India; Vladimir Nesic, University of Nis, Yugoslavia; S. Nyandia-Bundy and R.P. Bundy, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe; Robert F. Norton, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Dimitra Papadopoulou and D. Markoulis, University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Karl Peltzer, University of Malawi, Malawi; Catherine Peng, University of Oxford, England, who collected the data in the People's Republic of China; Pio Ricci-Bitti and Dino Giovannini, University of Bologna, Italy; Luis Soczka and Constanza Paul, University of Porto, Portugal; Velina Topalova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria; Ad Vingerhoets and J. Hendriksen, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Netherlands; H. Wallbott, University of Giessen (now University of Salzburg); C. Westenholz-Bless, University of Zambia, Zambia. |