Quantifying social semantics: An inclusive definition of socialness and ratings for 8388 English words.

ABSTRACT: It has been proposed that social experience plays an important role in the grounding of concepts, and socialness has been proffered as a fundamental organisational principle underpinning semantic representation in the human brain. However, the empirical support for these hypotheses is limited by inconsistencies in the way socialness has been defined and measured. To further advance theory, the field must establish a clearer working definition, and research efforts could be facilitated by the availability of an extensive set of socialness ratings for individual concepts. Therefore, in the current work, we employed a novel and inclusive definition to test the extent to which socialness is reliably perceived as a broad construct, and we report socialness norms for over 8000 English words, inc

SUBMITTER: Diveica V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10027635 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature