Normative ratings on valence, arousal, subjetive familiarity, and its relation with threat, depression and anger of 238 nouns in university students.

Abstract

We present normative data of the assessment by university students of nouns on scales of valence, arousal, word frequency or subjective familiarity, and its relation with threat, depression and anger. The reported norm rate can be utmost useful for research on the relationship between cognition and emotion, and in particular to researchers using attention and memory tasks with words stimuli and participants selected according to their emotional characteristics.