Cinematic Beauty: Qualitative Interview Data on Aesthetic Experience

A multimodal dataset from a qualitative interview study on the experience of beauty, using film clips as stimuli. The dataset includes video files of the stimuli, anonymized interview transcripts, visual bodily sensation maps, and analysis spreadsheets with thematic categories. It was created by Jakob Boer and last updated on June 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing thematic categories of aesthetic experience based on processed interview transcripts.
• Studying the relationship between film stimuli and reported bodily sensations using the provided video files and sensation maps.
• Developing or validating micro-phenomenological analysis techniques based on the documented interview and analysis procedures.

Strengths

• Includes multiple data modalities: video stimuli, interview transcripts, visual maps, and analysis files.
• Provides detailed documentation covering participant selection, interview protocols, and analysis procedures.
• Contains anonymized verbatim transcripts to support qualitative analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect bias inherent to the specific qualitative study design and participant selection.

Provenance

Source

Jakob Boer via DataverseNL Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Generated from a qualitative interview study employing micro-phenomenology.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-08 06:10:12; freshness should be verified.