Positive and negative personality descriptors: UK dataset of self-referential valence, imageability and subjective frequency ratings of 300 adjectives for use in cognitive-emotional tasks.

ABSTRACT: Experimental tasks comparing participants' performance for categorising, remembering, and recognising positive and negative words are widely used in the emotional cognitive domain. Such tasks are commonly used in experimental psychology and psychiatry research, and have been shown to be sensitive biomarkers of depression and antidepressant drug action [1,2]. In addition, several of these tasks investigate self-referential processing i.e., the processing of information relevant to oneself; this has been shown to modify the way emotional words are encoded and remembered and may be a target that is amenable to treatment [3,4]. In practice, the development of such tasks for implementation in research studies often depends on the selection and matching of words according to characteristics such

SUBMITTER: Raslescu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9801080 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature