Emotional Analysis

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What emotional analysis shows

Emotional analysis helps you inspect detected cues in interview recordings and explore how those cues vary across questions. Depending on the available analysis, cues describe visual expression, vocal delivery, or verbal content. These are automated interpretations of recorded signals. They do not establish a participant’s internal emotional state, prove that a stimulus caused an emotion, or guarantee that combining signals is more accurate.

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Find available analysis

Open Question coding to explore available emotion charts. Open an interview’s emotion view to inspect its recording and detected cues. Availability depends on the study’s video-analysis configuration, usable recordings, and processing results. A text response cannot supply facial or vocal evidence. If an interview has no reading, do not interpret that absence as a neutral emotion.

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Read patterns and coverage

Inspect the base and coverage caption alongside emotion distributions. Emotion charts distinguish interviews with a detection from interviews for which no reading was produced. Missing readings can reflect absent usable video or pending analysis. Compare groups only after checking coverage and sample size. A difference in the proportion of usable recordings can change what is represented in the chart.

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Inspect detected cues

Select an emotion chart category to inspect its available underlying cues. Read the cue description and whether it refers to visual, vocal, or verbal evidence. In an individual interview, use the emotion, category, and intensity filters to narrow the displayed cues. Selecting a timed cue seeks to its point in the recording, when playback is available.

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Review the participant journey

Use the interview timeline and question markers to examine what the participant was answering. Bubble color identifies the emotion; bubble size reflects the displayed intensity measure. An intensity estimate is not a probability that the emotional interpretation is correct. Replay the surrounding exchange and compare the interpretation with the participant’s own words. Sarcasm, expression style, recording quality, or an ambiguous remark can require a different interpretation.

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Use findings responsibly

Use detected cues as leads for qualitative review. Check multiple participants and alternative explanations before describing a pattern. Avoid treating an emotional shift between questions as a causal finding. See Question coding for chart exploration and Facets for count and missing-data conventions. Keep reported conclusions tied to the observed evidence and its limitations.