Affective norms for 380 Spanish words belonging to three different semantic categories

Ferré, Pilar; Guasch, Marc; Moldovan, Cornelia D.; Sánchez‐Casas, Rosa

doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0165-x

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“…The difference between them we may term concreteness (c.f. Ferré et al 2012;Kanske and Kotz 2007). Concrete stimuli are those having a certain representation in the material world.…”

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Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

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2017

Curr Psychol

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This paper presents data concerning the impact of word connotations differing in valence and origin on ambiguous decisions. The origin factor describes engagement of automatic vs. controlled processing mechanisms in formation of an emotional reaction to the stimuli (words, in this case). Other potentially important factors such as arousal, concreteness, frequency of appearance in language and length were matched across conditions. The task was introduced as intuition related and participants were supposed to guess which one of two hexagrams, introduced as pictorial symbols from an East Asian language, best suited the meaning of certain words. The expectation was that the origin of a word's affective connotations would influence decision making speed, and reaction latencies would be longer for reflectively originated words compared to automatically originated ones. The rationale for such a hypothesis is that reflective origins of emotional reactions are part of rational, multi-criteria processing, representing more complex mechanisms than automatic origins of emotional reactions based on experiential, automatic appraisals, representing less complex processing. For reflectively originated words, reaction latencies for word-sign matching tasks were longer than for automatically originated ones. No valence effects were found. Also no effects of the manipulations were found for time spent look at the words or location (top or bottom) of the chosen response in an ambiguous word-symbol matching task. This suggests that, indeed, origin influences only the type of processing that subsequently occurs, namely whether choices reflected systematic or heuristic processing.

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“…The difference between them we may term concreteness (c.f. Ferré et al 2012;Kanske and Kotz 2007). Concrete stimuli are those having a certain representation in the material world.…”

Section: Origin Of Emotion Operationalizational and Theoretical Issuesmentioning

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Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

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2017

Curr Psychol

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“…Does concreteness affect bilingual and monolingual word processing (Barber, Otten, Kousta, & Vigliocco, 2013;Connell & Lynott, 2012;Gianico-Relyea & Altarriba, 2012;Kaushanskaya & Rechtzigel, 2012)? Do concrete and abstract words differ in affective connotation (Ferré, Guasch, Moldovan, & Sánchez-Casas, 2012;Kousta, Vigliocco, Vinson, Andrews, & Del Campo, 2011)? Do neuropsychological patients differ in the comprehension of concrete and abstract words (Loiselle et al, 2012)?…”

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Norms of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch words

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Stevens²,

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Acta Psychologica

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f oWord processing studies increasingly make use of regression analyses based on large numbers of stimuli (the socalled megastudy approach) rather than experimental designs based on small factorial designs. This requires the availability of word features for many words. Following similar studies in English, we present and validate ratings of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch words. These include nearly all lemmas language researchers are likely to be interested in. The ratings are freely available for research purposes.

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“…In contrast, no such large corpus exists for Spanish. Concerning emotionality, to our knowledge there are only four affective databases from which researchers interested in emotional word processing can select their stimuli: the Spanish adaptation of ANEW (Redondo, Fraga, Padrón, & Comesaña, 2007); the affective norms of Ferré, Guasch, Moldovan, and Sánchez-Casas (2012); the affective norms of Redondo, Fraga, Comesaña, and Perea (2005); and the affective norms of Hinojosa et al (2015). The four databases together contain affective ratings for 2,525 different words.…”

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“…The four databases together contain affective ratings for 2,525 different words. Regarding concreteness and its associated variables, both Ferré et al (2012) and Hinojosa et al (2015) collected concreteness ratings for all of their stimuli. In addition, the database of Ferré et al (2012) contains values for familiarity.…”

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“…Regarding concreteness and its associated variables, both Ferré et al (2012) and Hinojosa et al (2015) collected concreteness ratings for all of their stimuli. In addition, the database of Ferré et al (2012) contains values for familiarity. However, the Spanish adaptation of ANEW (Redondo et al, 2007) provides concreteness, imageability, and familiarity ratings for only 612 of its 1,034 words.…”

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Spanish norms for affective and lexico-semantic variables for 1,400 words

2015

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Studies of semantic variables (e.g., concreteness) and affective variables (i.e., valence and arousal) have traditionally tended to run in different directions. However, in recent years there has been growing interest in studying the relationship, as well as the potential overlaps, between the two. This article describes a database that provides subjective ratings for 1,400 Spanish words for valence, arousal, concreteness, imageability, context availability, and familiarity. Data were collected online through a process involving 826 university students. The results showed a high interrater reliability for all of the variables examined, as well as high correlations between our affective and semantic values and norms currently available in other Spanish databases. Regarding the affective variables, the typical quadratic correlation between valence and arousal ratings was obtained. Likewise, significant correlations were found between the lexico-semantic variables. Importantly, we obtained moderate negative correlations between emotionality and both concreteness and imageability. This is in line with the claim that abstract words have more affective associations than concrete ones (Kousta, Vigliocco, Vinson, Andrews, & Del Campo, 2011). The present Spanish database is suitable for experimental research into the effects of both affective properties and lexico-semantic variables on word processing and memory.

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Affective norms for 380 Spanish words belonging to three different semantic categories

Cited by 84 publications

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Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

Words’ Origin of an Affective State, but not Valence, Shape the Reaction Latencies in a Word-Sign Choosing Ambiguous Task

Norms of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch words

Spanish norms for affective and lexico-semantic variables for 1,400 words

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