Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 169-177

  Moors, Agnes ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Hermans, Dirk ^b   Wanmaker, Sabine ^c   van Schie, Kevin ^c   Van Harmelen, Anne Laura ^d   De Schryver, Maarten ^a   De Winne, Jeffrey ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Arousal; Dominance; Frequency; Lexical norms; Valence; Word length

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PERSONALITY TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AROUSAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VOCABULARY; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874395640     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0243-8     Document Type: Article

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