Emotion elicitation and assessment is one of the most intriguing, although complex and vexing, que...

Video clips proved to effectively elicit different emotions. Hewig and colleagues (2005) developed a comprehensive set collecting 20 emotional film clips and investigated the basic emotions elicited in a German sample. In this study, we tested the reproducibility of their findings in Italian non-clinical adult subjects (N = 32) examined individually in an ecological setting; moreover, the dif-ferences between presentation modalities (with and without sound) were examined. Clips were rated on 10 emotional states (serene, amused, happy, surprised, sad, scared, angry, disgusted, in-dignant, tense) and on two bipolar dimensions of valence and intensity. Only little differences be-tween presentation modalities were found; stories depicted proved to be clear enough. Film clips elicited the expected emotional profiles, and their rank order for each emotion is almost compa-rable with the German ones. However, all the clips elicited more than one emotion: ANCOVA proved that emotions were not fully independent and specific association patterns were found