1. Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words.
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Moors A, De Houwer J, Hermans D, Wanmaker S, van Schie K, Van Harmelen AL, De Schryver M, De Winne J, and Brysbaert M
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- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Netherlands, Power, Psychological, Reproducibility of Results, Young Adult, Affect, Arousal, Social Dominance, Vocabulary, Word Association Tests
- Abstract
This article presents norms of valence/pleasantness, activity/arousal, power/dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words, mainly nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. The norms are based on ratings with a 7-point Likert scale by independent groups of students from two Belgian (Ghent and Leuven) and two Dutch (Rotterdam and Leiden-Amsterdam) samples. For each variable, we obtained high split-half reliabilities within each sample and high correlations between samples. In addition, the valence ratings of a previous, more limited study (Hermans & De Houwer, Psychologica Belgica, 34:115-139, 1994) correlated highly with those of the present study. Therefore, the new norms are a valuable source of information for affective research in the Dutch language.
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- 2013
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