Affective auditory stimuli: Adaptation of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS-2) for European Portuguese

Soares, Ana Paula; Pinheiro, Ana P.; Costa, Ana; Frade, Sofia; Comesaña, Montserrat; Pureza, Rita

doi:10.3758/s13428-012-0310-1

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“…Figure 1 shows the bivariate distribution of valence and arousal ratings averaged across all participants. The distribution confirms the typical boomerangshaped distribution reported by previous studies that have probed affective ratings for verbal (e.g., M. M. Bradley & Lang, 1999;Soares et al, 2012) and nonverbal (e.g., M. M. Bradley & Lang, 2007;Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 2008;Soares et al, 2013Soares et al, , 2015 stimuli. Similarly to pictures (e.g., Soares et al, 2015), sounds (e.g., Soares et al, 2013), and words (e.g., Soares et al, 2012), sentences rated as either highly pleasant or highly unpleasant were simultaneously rated as more arousing.…”

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“…In keeping with our previous findings (e.g., Soares et al, 2012;Soares et al, 2013Soares et al, , 2015, women rated negative sentences as more pleasant and more arousing, and positive sentences as more pleasant than did men. Also, women provided lower dominance ratings than did men when rating neutral and negative sentences.…”

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“…The dimensional results corroborated the a priori sentence categorizations: negative sentences (e.g., "The boss humiliated the team") were classified as the most unpleasant and arousing verbal stimuli, whereas positive sentences (e.g., "The actor is hilarious") were classified as the most pleasant verbal stimuli. In addition, we confirmed a tendency previously observed when investigating the affective ratings of pictures (e.g., Soares et al, 2015), sounds (e.g., Soares et al, 2013), and single words (e.g., Soares et al, 2012): the quadratic function underlying valence and arousal ratings indicated that highly pleasant and unpleasant sentences were more likely to be rated as highly arousing. This finding demonstrates the comparability of the present findings to previously published affective norms for single words, pictures, and sounds (e.g., M. M. Bradley & Lang, 1999;Grühn & Scheibe, 2008;Moors et al, 2013;Redondo et al, 2007;Soares et al, 2012;Soares et al, 2013Soares et al, , 2015Võ et al, 2009;Warriner, Kuperman, & Brysbaert, 2013).…”

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“…On the basis of a robust body of evidence demonstrating differences between women and men in ratings of affective stimuli (e.g., Soares et al, 2012;Soares et al, 2013Soares et al, , 2015, we additionally probed the influence of participants' sex on the sentences evaluations. We expected differences in affective ratings between male and female participants.…”

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Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

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During social communication, words and sentences play a critical role in the expression of emotional meaning. The Minho Affective Sentences (MAS) were developed to respond to the lack of a standardized sentence battery with normative affective ratings: 192 neutral, positive, and negative declarative sentences were strictly controlled for psycholinguistic variables such as numbers of words and letters and per-million word frequency. The sentences were designed to represent examples of each of the five basic emotions (anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and happiness) and of neutral situations. These sentences were presented to 536 participants who rated the stimuli using both dimensional and categorical measures of emotions. Sex differences were also explored. Additionally, we probed how personality, empathy, and mood from a subset of 40 participants modulated the affective ratings. Our results confirmed that the MAS affective norms are valid measures to guide the selection of stimuli for experimental studies of emotion. The combination of dimensional and categorical ratings provided a more finegrained characterization of the affective properties of the sentences. Moreover, the affective ratings of positive and negative sentences were not only modulated by participants' sex, but also by individual differences in empathy and mood state. Together, our results indicate that, in their quest to reveal the neurofunctional underpinnings of verbal emotional processing, researchers should consider not only the role of sex, but also of interindividual differences in empathy and mood states, in responses to the emotional meaning of sentences.

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“…For instance, Snodgrass and Vanderwart's (1980) stimulus set, originally evaluated by a North American sample, has been validated in several countries and cultures, including Portugal, Italy, Russia, and Japan (for a review, see Wang, Chen, & Zhu, 2014). Other international normative stimulus sets, such as the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW; Soares, Comesaña, Pinheiro, Simões, & Frade, 2012), International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS; Soares et al, 2013), and International Affective Picture System (IAPS; Soares et al, 2014) have also recently been adapted to the Portuguese population. Likewise, the present symbol set is also readily available for cross-validation in other countries.…”

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This article presents subjective rating norms for a new set of 600 symbols, depicting various contents (e.g., transportation, technology, and leisure activities) that can be used by researchers in different fields. Symbols were evaluated for aesthetic appeal, familiarity, visual complexity, concreteness, valence, arousal, and meaningfulness. The normative data were obtained from 388 participants, and no gender differences were found. Descriptive results (means, standard deviations, and confidence intervals) for each symbol in each dimension are presented. Overall, the dimensions were highly correlated. Additionally, participants were asked to briefly describe the meaning of each symbol. The results indicate that the present symbol set is varied, allowing for the selection of exemplars with different levels on the seven examined dimensions. This set of symbols constitutes a tool with potential for research in different areas. The database with all of the symbols is available as supplemental materials.

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Oral approach‐avoidance: A replication and extension for European–Portuguese phonation

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Previous research revealed that mouth movements influence attitudes . Covert subvocal articulations inducing muscular contractions resembling ingestionmovements were preferred over expectoration-like movements, unveiling a relationship between vocal muscles' wandering and motivational states such as approach and avoidance.These findings, explained in terms of embodied cognition, suggest that specific movements are directly connected to, and more importantly, automatically activate concordant motivational states. The oral approach avoidance effect was replicated using the original stimulus set and a new set of stimulus developed for Portuguese. Results from two highpowered (total N = 407), independent replications, reveal that the preference for inward words (over outwards) exists in both sets, but to a greater extent in the pool phonetically adapted for Portuguese.

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Affective auditory stimuli: Adaptation of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS-2) for European Portuguese

Cited by 43 publications

References 46 publications

Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli

Lisbon Symbol Database (LSD): Subjective norms for 600 symbols

Oral approach‐avoidance: A replication and extension for European–Portuguese phonation

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