Dataset: vivid

Paper

• Faul, L., Ritchey, M., & Kensinger, E. A. (2025). The relationship between subjective vividness and remembered visual characteristics of emotional stimuli across the lifespan. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001518. link

Open data

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Description

In this study, participants studied emotionally negative, positive, and neutral images. They then completed a memory test for these images, which included measures of:

• accuracy of the discrimination between old and new images
• ratings of subjective memory vividness
• errors in reconstructing the visual features of the images (here we’ll look at color saturation).

Participants were sampled across the lifespan from 19-78 years of age. Thus, this dataset is a rich dataset for looking at the effects of within-subjects and between-subjects variables on multiple dependent measures, as well as relationships between these variables.

There are two main files: the Key.csv file, which gives a description of all of the variables included in the dataset, and the Final_Data_307_Participants.csv file, which includes all of the data. The dataset includes a row for every experimental trial for every participant.

Analysis

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