Author, as appears in the article.: Hinojosa, JA; Guasch, M; Montoro, PR; Albert, J; Fraga, I; Ferré, P
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc
Keywords: Serenity Relief and pleasure Positive emotions Excitement English words Emotional ratings Contentment Awe Amusement valence serenity relief and pleasure processing evidence negative words language facial expression excitement emotional ratings contentment concreteness awe arousal amusement adaptation
Abstract: In recent years, assumptions about the existence of a single construct of happiness that accounts for all positive emotions have been questioned. Instead, several discrete positive emotions with their own neurobiological and psychological mechanisms have been proposed. Of note, the effects of positive emotions on language processing are not yet properly understood. Here we provide a database for a large set of 9000 Spanish words scored by 3437 participants in the positive emotions of awe, contentment, amusement, excitement, serenity, relief, and pleasure. We also report significant correlations between discrete positive emotions and several affective (e.g., valence, arousal, happiness, negative discrete emotions) and lexico-semantic (e.g., frequency of use, familiarity, concreteness, age of acquisition) characteristics of words. Finally, we analyze differences between words conveying a single emotion ("pure" emotion words) and those denoting more than one emotion ("mixed" emotion words). This study will provide researchers a rich source of information to do research that contributes to expanding the current knowledge on the role of positive emotions in language. The norms are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21533571.v2.© 2023. The Author(s).
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: 2024-08-10
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Behavior Research Methods. 56 (5): 4909-4929
APA: Hinojosa, JA; Guasch, M; Montoro, PR; Albert, J; Fraga, I; Ferré, P (2024). The bright side of words: Norms for 9000 Spanish words in seven discrete positive emotions. Behavior Research Methods, 56(5), 4909-4929. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02229-8
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2024
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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