The Words of Affectivity. Affect, Category, and Social Evaluation Norms for 400 Polish Adjectives.

ABSTRACT: Emotional adjectives can be grouped into two main categories: denoting and connoting stable (personality) traits and denoting and connoting transient (mood) states. They relate closely to the concept of affectivity, which is a pervasive tendency to experience moods of positive or negative valence. They constitute a rich study material for personality and affect psychology and neuroscience. Thus, this study was designed to establish a normed list of emotional adjectives with ratings encompassing four dimensions: emotional valence (positive or negative), emotional arousal (low-arousing or high-arousing), category (state, trait, and hybrid), and social judgment (competence, morality, and mixed). The adjectives were preselected based on previous broad Polish norming studies, personality and mo

SUBMITTER: Grzybowski SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8455918 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature