Context
Emotion stimuli for children—especially autistic children—must balance induction, conceptual clarity, ethics, and burden. Adult stimulus sets cannot simply be reused.
Child research · Emotion stimuli
Selecting age-appropriate, interpretable emotion videos for autistic children
Building selection criteria across emotional intensity, category purity, age-appropriateness, comprehension, ethics, and duration for EEG and eye-tracking studies.
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Core question
Which categories remain theoretically distinct, understandable to children, and reliably inducible within a limited session?
My role
Project lead, responsible for category rationale, video selection, age and ethics criteria, piloting, and EEG/eye-tracking study design. Timeline and other details are to be confirmed.
Approach
Combine intensity and purity rankings with content review, concept comprehensibility, fatigue limits, and a small pilot before final selection.
Process
Narrow categories → review content → rank intensity/purity → set timing → pilot → evaluate behavioral and physiological responses.
Challenge & response
Some nuanced positive emotions overlap with attention, aesthetics, or social cognition. Child comprehensibility and necessity for the research question became key retention criteria.
Current output
A candidate set, exclusion principles, and a plan to compress the task toward roughly 20 minutes are in place. Final counts and pilot results are pending.
Reflection
More categories are not necessarily better in child research; every stimulus must support comprehension, tolerability, and a clear analytic purpose.
Related materials
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