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TY - JOUR
T1 - Affective norms of 875 Spanish words for five discrete emotional categories and two emotional dimensions
AU - Hinojosa, Jose Antonio
AU - Martinez Garcia, Natalia
AU - Villalba Garcia, Cristina
AU - Fernandez Folgueiras, Uxia
AU - Sanchez Carmona, Alberto
AU - Pozo, Miguel Angel
AU - Montoro, Pedro
PY - 2016/3
Y1 - 2016/3
N2 - In the present study, we introduce affective norms for a new set of Spanish words, the Madrid Affective Database for Spanish (MADS), that were scored on two emotional dimensions (valence and arousal) and on five discrete emotional categories (happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust), as well as on concreteness, by 660 Spanish native speakers. Measures of several objective psycholinguistic variables—grammatical class, word frequency, number of letters, and number of syllables—for the words are also included. We observed high split-half reliabilities for every emotional variable and a strong quadratic relationship between valence and arousal. Additional analyses revealed several associations between the affective dimensions and discrete emotions, as well as with some psycholinguistic variables. This new corpus complements and extends prior databases in Spanish and allows for designing new experiments investigating the influence of affective content in language processing under both dimensional and discrete theoretical conceptions of emotion. These norms can be downloaded as supplemental materials for this article from www.dropbox.com/s/o6dpw3irk6utfhy/Hinojosa%20et%20al_Supplementary%20materials.xlsx?dl=0.
AB - In the present study, we introduce affective norms for a new set of Spanish words, the Madrid Affective Database for Spanish (MADS), that were scored on two emotional dimensions (valence and arousal) and on five discrete emotional categories (happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust), as well as on concreteness, by 660 Spanish native speakers. Measures of several objective psycholinguistic variables—grammatical class, word frequency, number of letters, and number of syllables—for the words are also included. We observed high split-half reliabilities for every emotional variable and a strong quadratic relationship between valence and arousal. Additional analyses revealed several associations between the affective dimensions and discrete emotions, as well as with some psycholinguistic variables. This new corpus complements and extends prior databases in Spanish and allows for designing new experiments investigating the influence of affective content in language processing under both dimensional and discrete theoretical conceptions of emotion. These norms can be downloaded as supplemental materials for this article from www.dropbox.com/s/o6dpw3irk6utfhy/Hinojosa%20et%20al_Supplementary%20materials.xlsx?dl=0.
KW - Emotion ratings
KW - Affective dimensions
KW - Discrete emotions
KW - Valence
KW - Arousal
KW - Concreteness
KW - Happy
KW - Angry
KW - Sad
KW - Fear
KW - Disgust
U2 - 10.3758/s13428-015-0572-5
DO - 10.3758/s13428-015-0572-5
M3 - Journal article
VL - 48
SP - 272
EP - 284
JO - Behavior Research Methods
JF - Behavior Research Methods
SN - 1554-351X
IS - 1
ER -