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- Title
Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas.
- Authors
Warriner, Amy Beth; Kuperman, Victor; Brysbaert, Marc
- Abstract
Information about the affective meanings of words is used by researchers working on emotions and moods, word recognition and memory, and text-based sentiment analysis. Three components of emotions are traditionally distinguished: valence (the pleasantness of a stimulus), arousal (the intensity of emotion provoked by a stimulus), and dominance (the degree of control exerted by a stimulus). Thus far, nearly all research has been based on the ANEW norms collected by Bradley and Lang ( 1999 ) for 1,034 words. We extended that database to nearly 14,000 English lemmas, providing researchers with a much richer source of information, including gender, age, and educational differences in emotion norms. As an example of the new possibilities, we included stimuli from nearly all of the category norms (e.g., types of diseases, occupations, and taboo words) collected by Van Overschelde, Rawson, and Dunlosky (Journal of Memory and Language 50:289-335, 2004 ), making it possible to include affect in studies of semantic memory.
- Subjects
EMOTIONS; MOOD (Psychology); WORD recognition; MEMORY; SEMANTIC memory
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2013, Vol 45, Issue 4, p1191
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-012-0314-x