1 Manual for ‘Affective auditory stimuli: characterization of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS) by discrete emotions.’ Ryan A. Stevenson 1,2 & Thomas W. James 1,2 1. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University 2. Program in Neuroscience, Indiana University This manual accompanies Stevenson & James (2007), and references data archived at www.psychonomics.com . Data included are ratings from the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS) on five categories of discrete emotion, happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. Ratings were collected on 40 male and 40 female participants. Figures Figure 1: Contrasting happiness ratings with other discrete emotional categories recorded by Stevenson and James (In Press) and Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) ratings originally recorded by Bradley & Lang (1999). Graphs in this figure relate happiness ratings with fear (a), anger (b), disgust (c), sadness (d), valence (e), arousal (f), and dominance (g). Blue diamonds represent sounds with a positive valence (5 or above), and red squares represent those with negative valence (5 and below). Linear trend lines have been calculated and are overlaid for both positive and negative sounds, with the linear equation listed in the legend. Figure 2: Contrasting fear ratings with other discrete emotional categories recorded by Stevenson and James (In Press) and SAM ratings originally recorded by Bradley & Lang (1999). Graphs in this figure relate fear ratings with happiness (a), anger (b), disgust (c), sadness (d), valence (e), arousal (f), and dominance (g). Blue diamonds represent sounds with a positive valence (5 or above), and red squares represent those with negative valence (5 and below). Linear trend lines have been calculated and are overlaid for both positive and negative sounds, with the linear equation listed in the legend. Figures 3: Contrasting anger ratings with other discrete emotional categories recorded by Stevenson and James (In Press) and SAM ratings originally recorded by Bradley & Lang (1999). Graphs in this figure relate anger ratings with happiness (a), fear (b), disgust (c), sadness (d), valence (e), arousal (f), and dominance (g). Blue diamonds represent sounds with a positive valence (5 or above), and red squares represent those with negative valence (5 and below). Linear trend lines have been calculated and are overlaid for both positive and negative sounds, with the linear equation listed in the legend. Figures 4: Contrasting disgust ratings with other discrete emotional categories recorded by Stevenson and James (In Press) and SAM ratings originally recorded by Bradley & Lang (1999). Graphs in this figure relate disgust ratings with happiness (a), fear (b), anger (c), sadness (d), valence (e), arousal (f), and dominance (g). Blue diamonds represent sounds with a positive valence (5 or above), and red squares represent those with negative valence (5 and below). Linear trend lines have been calculated and are overlaid for both positive and negative sounds, with the linear equation listed in the legend. Figures 5: Contrasting sadness ratings with other discrete emotional categories recorded by Stevenson and James (In Press) and SAM ratings originally recorded by Bradley & Lang (1999). Graphs in this figure relate sadness ratings with happiness (a), fear (b), anger (c), disgust (d), valence (e), arousal (f), and dominance (g). Blue diamonds represent sounds with a positive valence (5 or above), and red squares represent those with negative valence (5 and below). Linear trend lines have been calculated and are overlaid for both positive and negative sounds, with the linear equation listed in the legend. Figures 6: Contrasting valence ratings with discrete emotional categories recorded by Stevenson and James (In Press) and with other SAM ratings originally recorded by Bradley & Lang (1999). Graphs in this figure relate valence ratings with happiness (a), fear (b), anger (c), disgust (d), sadness (e), arousal (f), and dominance (g). Blue diamonds represent sounds with a positive valence (5 or above), and red squares represent those with negative valence (5 and below). Linear trend lines have been calculated and are overlaid for both positive and negative sounds, with the linear equation listed in the legend. Figures 7: Contrasting arousal ratings with discrete emotional categories recorded by Stevenson and James (In Press) and with other SAM ratings originally recorded by Bradley & Lang (1999). Graphs in this figure relate arousal ratings with happiness (a), fear (b), anger (c), disgust (d),