This paper introduces Pick-A-Mood, a character-based pictorial scale for reporting and
expressing moods. Pick-A-Mood consists of three characters that each express eight mood …

This paper presents' Pick-A-Mood'(PAM), a cartoon-based pictorial instrument for reporting
and expressing moods. The use of cartoon characters enables people to unambiguously …

Affect plays a central role in human experience, providing the ongoing hedonic tone that
colors the everyday lives of individuals. Not surprisingly, therefore, affect occupies an …

In this chapter, we provide a basic introduction to the measurement of mood. After decades
of neglect, mood emerged as a seminal concept within psychology during the 1980s, and its …

In this article we report on a new digital interactive self-report method for the measurement of
human affect. The AffectButton (Broekens and Brinkman, 2009. ACII 2009: IEEE) is a button …

Self-reports of mood are the most frequently used measure of subjective emotional
experience in studies of human emotion. The present study evaluated the degree to which …

Self-assessment methods are broadly employed in emotion research for the collection of
subjective affective ratings. The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM), a pictorial scale developed …

Measurement of an individual's subjective experience of emotion has long been a key
component of emotion research, but it presents some unique challenges. Researchers have …

Participants rated 84 statements adapted from Velten's original mood induction statements—
designed to induce positive and negative mood—on two dimensions of emotion (valence …

Emotion Measurement reviews academic and applied studies in order to highlight key
elements of emotions which should be considered in the development and validation of …