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Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic
The topic of affective development over the lifespan is at the forefront of psychological science. One of the intriguing findings in this area is superior emotion regulation and increased positivity in older rather than younger adults. This paper aims to contribute to the empirical base of studies o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8676940/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34918233 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01740-0 |
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author | Kyröläinen, Aki-Juhani Luke, Javon Libben, Gary Kuperman, Victor |
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description | The topic of affective development over the lifespan is at the forefront of psychological science. One of the intriguing findings in this area is superior emotion regulation and increased positivity in older rather than younger adults. This paper aims to contribute to the empirical base of studies on the role of affect in cognition. We report a new dataset of valence (positivity) ratings to 3,600 English words collected from North American and British English-speaking younger (below 65 years of age) and older adults (65 years of age and older) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This dataset represents a broad range of valence and a rich selection of semantic categories. Our analyses of the new data pitted against comparable pre-pandemic (2013) data from younger counterparts reveal differences in the overall distribution of valence related both to age and the psychological fallout of the pandemic. Thus, we found at the group level that older participants produced higher valence ratings overall than their younger counterparts before and especially during the pandemic. Moreover, valence ratings saw a super-linear increase after the age of 65. Together, these findings provide new evidence for emotion regulation throughout adulthood, including a novel demonstration of greater emotional resilience in older adults to the stressors of the pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-86769402021-12-17 Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic Kyröläinen, Aki-Juhani Luke, Javon Libben, Gary Kuperman, Victor Behav Res Methods Article The topic of affective development over the lifespan is at the forefront of psychological science. One of the intriguing findings in this area is superior emotion regulation and increased positivity in older rather than younger adults. This paper aims to contribute to the empirical base of studies on the role of affect in cognition. We report a new dataset of valence (positivity) ratings to 3,600 English words collected from North American and British English-speaking younger (below 65 years of age) and older adults (65 years of age and older) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This dataset represents a broad range of valence and a rich selection of semantic categories. Our analyses of the new data pitted against comparable pre-pandemic (2013) data from younger counterparts reveal differences in the overall distribution of valence related both to age and the psychological fallout of the pandemic. Thus, we found at the group level that older participants produced higher valence ratings overall than their younger counterparts before and especially during the pandemic. Moreover, valence ratings saw a super-linear increase after the age of 65. Together, these findings provide new evidence for emotion regulation throughout adulthood, including a novel demonstration of greater emotional resilience in older adults to the stressors of the pandemic. Springer US 2021-12-16 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8676940/ /pubmed/34918233 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01740-0 Text en © The Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Kyröläinen, Aki-Juhani Luke, Javon Libben, Gary Kuperman, Victor Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic |
title | Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic |
title_full | Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic |
title_fullStr | Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic |
title_short | Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic |
title_sort | valence norms for 3,600 english words collected during the covid-19 pandemic: effects of age and the pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8676940/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34918233 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01740-0 |
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