Moldovan, C. 1, 2 , Ferré, P. 1, 2 , Guasch, M. 1, 2 & Sánchez-Casas, R. 1, 2
1 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
2 CRAMC
In the last years, there has been an increasing interest in the study of the processing of emotional words. One of the questions of interest is to investigate the relationship between semantic and affective properties of words. Experimental paradigms such as semantic and affective priming have been used to address this question with tasks that can require the inclusion of words belonging to different semantic categories. There are several word databases that include affective ratings One of the most frequently used is the ANEW (Bradley & Lang, 1999), adapted to Spanish by Redondo et al. (2007). However, in this data base the words of different semantic categories are not equally represented and it may be difficult for researchers to find enough number of words belonging to specific categories. In this study we present affective ratings for 400 Spanish words that were not included in the ANEW. There were119 words referring to animals, 156 referring to objects and 125 related to persons. The norms were collected with 315 Spanish speakers who rated the words according to their valence, arousal, concreteness and familiarity. These ratings will help researchers to select stimuli for experiments where semantic and affective characteristics of words are manipulated.