Please rank your emotional reaction to the following 25 pictures with a score from 1 to 10, where one is a low reaction to ten is a high reaction. To participate in the experiment, please respond with a simple string of 25 numbers, something like this:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,1,2,3

I am hoping to get enough responses for a statistically significant result, so please help. Don't duplicate all the pictures with each response. Thanks!



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5,7,2,9,7,10,9,6,9,3,1,10,10,10,3,3,5,7,8,10,6,2,8,9,10

5,6,8,2,5,5,6,2,6,3,5,5,10,5,7,2,6,7,10,6,6,5,8,8

3,3,3,3,3,6,5,2,3,4,4,5,1,4,5,6,4,7,8,8,6,6,4,2,1

Come on everybody, please participate. I need enough entries for statistical significance.

6,5,8,2,3,2,6,4,6,3,7,2,1,8,3,5,2,3,5,4,6,7,8,3,2

Thanks!

3,3,5,4,2,2,2,2,2,4,3,4,2,4,3,4,2,2,8,8,2,3,2,3,7.

Cool

6,3,6,5,7,4,6,3,8,5,2,6,9,9,8,6,4,6,7,4,3,7,10,6,3

Strongest reaction was to picture 23 as it is photographically realistic and the image brings very strong feelings from the 'past'... is this caused by genetic memory?

5,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,3,1,1,6,7,7,1,5,1,2,1

Not taking the p*** . Most images produce no reponse at all from me. I'll be happy to discuss after what I did respond to.

Define "emotional reaction". I just took a quick look and I'm either cold as a stone, or clinically dead, as I had no discernable 'emotional reaction' that I could tell. Am I supposed to feel fear, hate, embarassment, joy, disgust, horror, sexual attraction, etc. etc.?

Now, if you ask me to rate the latest Sports Illustrated models from 1 - 10 I may be more successful. (happier too)

RayG

Hi Ray,

Any type of emotion will do, just rank the intesity. I agree it's not easy. Can't say too much about experimental design before we gather the data.

Thanks!

I get no 'emotional reaction' from any of the pictures - they are just pictures. Sorry.

I'm pleased it's just not me. My responses were purely to artwork I liked - some Frazetta & Burian in there :new_thumbsupsmileyanim: . And a couple made me smile :laugh: .

Well I guess a smile *is* an emotional response - I just didn't do that either, but then you have to bear in mind that I examine and catalogue thousands of images every month, including a lot of images most people would rather not see, so I guess I get into the habit of switching off a little when I look at computerised images.

You're right of course. Most of them to me were just pictures other than the artwork I liked. You could well be a bit "desensitised" if you routinely see nasty stuff I suppose.

I'm pinning this thread for a while in the hope that we generate a few more test results for ya!

1,1,2,1,3,2,3,2,2,1,1,3,1,3,3,1,1,1,3,1,2,2,4,1,1

Cheers

Alex

1,1,4,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,4,1,1,1,1,1,1,4,5,5,1,5,5,3,2

I hope this helps your research.

1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,5,1,2,1,1,1,5,1,1,3,1,1

Hope this helps, good luck. :smile:

1,1,2,3,1,1,2,2,1,1,1,3,3,1,2,1,2,1,2,3,1,1,1,3,1

1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1.

1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1

I feel nothing when looking at any of them. I hope I don't skew your results, but it's an honest dataset.

1 across the board, with the exception of the last image, and only then because it's one of my favorites from the past.

1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,10,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1

Holy heebeejeebees! #14 gave me a reaction of about 20!

Nothing here..I must also be emotionless!
so...guess all ones.

2,2,4,2,2,2,6,4,3,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,6,3,5,2,7,8,9,4,8,3,4,6


Morgoth, in case you are not a computer geek,
copy each row into a text file and save as whatever.csv and open in excel. Then sum the columns and divide by rows to get average. something like =SUM(A1:A8)/(ROW()-1) underneath each column

1113111121312311234612145

1,1,4,2,3,5,2,2,3,2,6,2,3,5,2,3,1,3,5,3,3,4,2,4,6

One would notice a definite spike in my reaction with the apparent female subject in image 14.

I gave it a 4.

DR

Thanks everyone, please keep entering those responses. I will calculate the results and post them right here next Friday on 2/23/2007.

Also thanks to Paul for pinning the thread!

Lots of low responses, perhaps you should have used underwear models instead of apes. LOL

2,1,2,1,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,,1,1,1,3,1,3,2,1,1

:smily953:

Starting with # 1
1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1. Thats all folks!

3,4,5,2265465454854235433357

I got tired with putting in commas. Sorry.

5,4,4,2,4,1,5,3,6,2,3,1,3,7,5,7,2,4,6,7,3,5,8,3,5

2,1,4,5,1,1,3,2,1,1,1,1,3,2,1,4,1,4,5,5,2,3,3,5,1.

Okay, not as time consuming as I thought it would be. And I guess I ranked them on likeability.

See? It's easy. C'mon and take the test if you haven't yet!

Thanks, and we'll have some results at the end of the week.

4,2,7,6,3,3,8,4,7,6,8,2,9,7,9,9,2,9,10,10,4,3,5,3,3



Don't only do take averages of scores for each image. You could have much fun with these data. Could probably do a personality profile of each responder

All ones but Image 20. The leader looks like my ex on a binge, so it unsettled me somewhat (3.5).

3 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 2 6 1 1 3 1 1

1,1,2,2,3,1,4,2,2,4,2,2,2,3,4,5,1,4,3,7,2,4,1,1,2

RESULTS

Hello all, and thanks for participating in this test, I received 26 usable responses in all. I would like to continue gathering data, so keep those cards and letters coming! But I also promised some preliminary results, so here they are.

This research was the result of a discussion in another thread started by Drew wondering if humans have an "Innate Fear Of Neanderthals." Many of our BFF members discussed various isses about possible human and neanderthal interactions in this thread:

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?sho...c=17397&hl=

During the course of the discussion I started to wonder if anyone had ever tried to measure human emotional responses to various hominid characteristics. Kind of like the "cute response", but in the opposite direction. So I assembled these 25 pictures and made each one a combination of the following characteristics:

1) skin covered vs. hairy
2) small vs. big or heavy
3) quadrapedal vs. bipedal
4) primitive vs. tools & technology

So you will notice that some of the pictures are arbitrary combinations of these characteristics, for example a gorilla with tools, a bipedal hairy creature, etc. Then, I specified a linear multiple regression model to estimate the following equation:

emotional response = FX ( hairy , heavy , bipedal , tools )

The model was estimated using the response data provided by you guys in this thread. The regression coefficients from the model are listed below. What this basically means is that emotional response is POSITIVELY related to being hairy, heavy, or bipedal, and NEGATIVELY related to tool use. Another way to think of this is that I could come up with another picture and PREDICT the average emotional response.

response = (0.05 * hairy) + (0.27 * heavy) + (0.07 * bipedal) - (0.05 * tools)

Overall, the picture characteristics accounted for a relatively small amount of the total emotional response, which suggests that there are some missing parameters in the model, but the results WERE significant. I have attached a complete run of the statistics, below.

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4,3,4,6,8,3,3,6,8,3,5,7,2,6,8,8,8,4,5,2,6,4,9,3,5

Well, I kind of voted by if I thought the picture was cool or not -- obviously the gorrila with the power drill made me smile, but I also liked the cave man with the spear (where he was sharpening it or something).

3,3,6,2,4,2,7,2,7,6,6,5,4,8,7,9,2,8,10,10,8,8,7,9,10

2,2,6,1,1,1,3,2,5,1,1,1,2,4,2,5,2,1,1,3,1,2,3,2,3

Morgoth,

Can you summarize your findings for us in sentence form?

3,3,2,3,3,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,3,2,3,3,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2

Morgoth, I entered these before looking at the purpose/results if that makes a difference.

I'd be interested in seeing the results you get from people here vs. those you might get from others, say the first X number of people who walk into a 7-Eleven.

IMA

7,5,7,3,3,3,3,3,7,3,5,3,3,8,3,7,2,3,6,8,3,7,7,5,5

If it's worth anything, I think I found my "reaction" to be more intense as the picture showed a closer representation of my preconcieved idea of what a BF should look like.

EDIT: I posted before reading the rest of the thread.

3,3,4,1,2,1,6,2,5,2,4,1,2,5,3,3,1,3,5,4,3,3,4,3,2