Author, as appears in the article.: Perez-Sanchez, Miguel Angel; Stadthagen-Gonzalez, Hans; Guasch, Marc; Hinojosa, Jose Antonio; Fraga, Isabel; Marin, Javier; Ferre, Pilar;
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc
Keywords: Valence Psycholinguistics Prototypicality Emotion Discrete emotions Arousal
Abstract: We present EmoPro, a normative study of the emotion lexicon of the Spanish language. We provide emotional prototypicality ratings for 1286 emotion words (i.e., those that refer to human emotions such as fear or happy), belonging to different grammatical categories. This is the largest data set for this variable so far. Each word was rated by at least 20 participants, and adequate reliability and validity rates for prototypicality scores were found. We also provide new affective (valence, arousal, emotionality, happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, and anger) and psycholinguistic (Age-of-Acquisition, frequency and concreteness) ratings for those words without prior data in the extant literature, and analyze which of the given variables contribute the most to prototypicality. A factor analysis on the affective and psycholinguistic variables has shown that prototypicality loads in a factor associated to the emotional salience of words. Furthermore, a regression analysis reveals a significant role of both dimensional and discrete- emotion-related variables, as well as a modest effect of AoA and frequency on the prediction of prototypicality. Cross-linguistic comparisons show that the pattern obtained here is similar to that observed in other languages. EmoPro norms will be highly valuable for researchers in the field, providing them with a tool to select the most representative emotion words in Spanish for their experimental (e.g., for a comparison with emotion-laden words, such as murder or party) or applied studies (e.g., to examine the acquisition of emotion words/concepts in children). The full set of norms is available as supplementary material.
Thematic Areas: Psychology, mathematical Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Medicina ii General psychology Experimental and cognitive psychology Enfermagem Educação física Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas ii Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat marc.guasch@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0002-6898-120X
Record's date: 2024-07-27
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-020-01519-9
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Behavior Research Methods. 53 (5): 1857-1875
APA: Perez-Sanchez, Miguel Angel; Stadthagen-Gonzalez, Hans; Guasch, Marc; Hinojosa, Jose Antonio; Fraga, Isabel; Marin, Javier; Ferre, Pilar; (2021). EmoPro - Emotional prototypicality for 1286 Spanish words: Relationships with affective and psycholinguistic variables. Behavior Research Methods, 53(5), 1857-1875. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01519-9
Article's DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01519-9
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications