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Valence and Arousal Ratings for 420 Finnish Nouns by Age and Gender
Language-and culture-specific norms are needed for research on emotion-laden stimuli. We present valence and arousal ratings for 420 Finnish nouns for a sample of 996 Finnish speakers. Ratings are provided both for the whole sample and for subgroups divided by age and gender in light of previous res...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758333/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24023650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072859 |
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author | Söderholm, Carina Häyry, Emilia Laine, Matti Karrasch, Mira |
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description | Language-and culture-specific norms are needed for research on emotion-laden stimuli. We present valence and arousal ratings for 420 Finnish nouns for a sample of 996 Finnish speakers. Ratings are provided both for the whole sample and for subgroups divided by age and gender in light of previous research suggesting age- and gender-specific reactivity to the emotional content in stimuli. Moreover, corpus-based frequency values and word length are provided as objective psycholinguistic measures of the nouns. The relationship between valence and arousal mainly showed the curvilinear relationship reported in previous studies. Age and gender effects on valence and arousal ratings were statistically significant but weak. The inherent affective properties of the words in terms of mean valence and arousal ratings explained more of the variance in the ratings. In all, the findings suggest that language- and culture-related factors influence the way affective properties of words are rated to a greater degree than demographic factors. This database will provide researchers with normative data for Finnish emotion-laden and emotionally neutral words. The normative database is available in Database S1. |
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spelling | pubmed-37583332013-09-10 Valence and Arousal Ratings for 420 Finnish Nouns by Age and Gender Söderholm, Carina Häyry, Emilia Laine, Matti Karrasch, Mira PLoS One Research Article Language-and culture-specific norms are needed for research on emotion-laden stimuli. We present valence and arousal ratings for 420 Finnish nouns for a sample of 996 Finnish speakers. Ratings are provided both for the whole sample and for subgroups divided by age and gender in light of previous research suggesting age- and gender-specific reactivity to the emotional content in stimuli. Moreover, corpus-based frequency values and word length are provided as objective psycholinguistic measures of the nouns. The relationship between valence and arousal mainly showed the curvilinear relationship reported in previous studies. Age and gender effects on valence and arousal ratings were statistically significant but weak. The inherent affective properties of the words in terms of mean valence and arousal ratings explained more of the variance in the ratings. In all, the findings suggest that language- and culture-related factors influence the way affective properties of words are rated to a greater degree than demographic factors. This database will provide researchers with normative data for Finnish emotion-laden and emotionally neutral words. The normative database is available in Database S1. Public Library of Science 2013-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3758333/ /pubmed/24023650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072859 Text en © 2013 Söderholm et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Söderholm, Carina Häyry, Emilia Laine, Matti Karrasch, Mira Valence and Arousal Ratings for 420 Finnish Nouns by Age and Gender |
title | Valence and Arousal Ratings for 420 Finnish Nouns by Age and Gender |
title_full | Valence and Arousal Ratings for 420 Finnish Nouns by Age and Gender |
title_fullStr | Valence and Arousal Ratings for 420 Finnish Nouns by Age and Gender |
title_full_unstemmed | Valence and Arousal Ratings for 420 Finnish Nouns by Age and Gender |
title_short | Valence and Arousal Ratings for 420 Finnish Nouns by Age and Gender |
title_sort | valence and arousal ratings for 420 finnish nouns by age and gender |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758333/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24023650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072859 |
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