Affective norms for 1,586 Polish words (ANPW): Duality-of-mind approach.

ABSTRACT: This article presents valence/pleasantness, activity/arousal, power/dominance, origin, subjective significance, and source-of-experience norms for 1,586 Polish words (primarily nouns), adapted from the Affective Norms for English Words list (1,040 words) and from my own previous research (546 words), regarding the duality-of-mind approach for emotion formation. This is a first attempt at creating affective norms for Polish words. The norms are based on ratings by a total of 1,670 college students (852 females and 818 males) from different Warsaw universities and academies, studying various disciplines in equal proportions (humanities, engineering, and social and natural sciences) using a 9-point Likert Self-Assessment Manikin scale. Each participant assessed 240 words on six different scal

SUBMITTER: Imbir KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4545176 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature