Affective Norms for 718 Polish Short Texts (ANPST): Dataset with Affective Ratings for Valence, Arousal, Dominance, Origin, Subjective Significance and Source Dimensions

Abstract

Affective sciences are of burgeoning interest and are attracting more and more research attention. Three components of stimuli meaning have traditionally been distinguished: valence (degree of pleasantness), arousal (degree of intensity of sensations), and dominance (degree of control over sensations). Recently, another three dimensions have been introduced to measure qualities connected to the emotion–duality model: origin (the main component originating in the heart or in the mind), subjective significance (the degree of the subjective goal’s relevance), and source (the location of the stimuli evoking the state). All six affective dimensions were assessed in our study of 718 Polish short texts (sentences of 5–23 words and 36–133 characters in length) describing situations or states in a way that can be referenced to an individual’s experience. Assessments were carried out by 148 psychology students (all women for 108 sentences) and 2,091 students of different faculties (social science, engineering, life science, and science) from Warsaw colleges and universities (1,061 women and 1,030 men for all 718 sentences). Assessing sets of sentences for emotional response is especially useful for researchers interested in emotion elicitation through the use of a phrase such as “imagine that …” or by simply reading emotionally charged material that is more complex and that provides better context than single pictures or words.

Affective Meaning, Concreteness, and Subjective Frequency Norms for Indonesian Words

“…The significant linear regression only accounted for 1% of the variance ( Figure 6 ). This finding is in line with Imbir (2016) as well as Kousta et al (2011), who suggest that abstract words tend to be more emotionally valenced than the concrete ones. On the other hand, a regression analysis on Arousal and Concreteness yielded a positive linear relationship, r = 0.36, p < 0.001.…”

“…With respect to the subjective rating of Concreteness, abstract words tend to be perceived as more emotionally valenced than concrete words (Kousta et al, 2011), suggesting that Valence and Concreteness might not merely have a linear relationship (Hinojosa et al, 2016), but possibly a quadratic one. To our knowledge, such a quadratic relationship between Valence and Concreteness has been reported only in one rating study on Polish words (Imbir, 2016). With respect to Arousal, we predict a linear relationship between Arousal and Concreteness: abstract words should be rated as more arousing than concrete ones (Guasch et al, 2015; Stadthagen-Gonzalez et al, 2016).…”

“…Most affective rating studies assessed the valence and arousal levels of words in European languages, such as French (Monnier and Syssau, 2014, involving 469 participants; Ric et al, 2013, N = 328), German (Grühn and Smith, 2008, involving 24 young adults, 24 older adults, and 19 additional participants; Võ et al, 2009, N = 200), English (Eilola and Havelka, 2010, N = 304; Warriner et al, 2013, N = 1,827), Finnish (Eilola and Havelka, 2010, N = 304; Söderholm et al, 2013, N = 996), Dutch (Moors et al, 2013, N = 224), Spanish (Ferré et al, 2012, N = 504; Guasch et al, 2015, N = 826; Hinojosa et al, 2016, N = 660; Stadthagen-Gonzalez et al, 2016, N = 512), and Polish (Imbir, 2015, 2016, involving 1,670 and 400 participants; Riegel et al, 2015, N = 266). Some studies also utilized a selective set of emotional stimuli, such as taboo words (Janschewitz, 2008, N = 84) and antonym pairs (Citron et al, 2012, N = 82).…”

The Affective Norms for Polish Short Texts (ANPST) Database Properties and Impact of Participants’ Population and Sex on Affective Ratings

“… The Affective Norms for Polish Short Texts (ANPST) dataset ( Imbir, 2016d ) is a list of 718 affective sentence stimuli with known affective properties with respect to subjectively perceived valence, arousal, dominance, origin, subjective significance, and source. This article examines the reliability of the ANPST and the impact of population type and sex on affective ratings.…”

KAPODI- The Searchable Database of 364 Available Emotional Stimuli Sets

“…Ferré et al, 2012) of the three dimensions, or extended by creating figurines for further dimensions such as significance (high vs. low), source (internal vs. external) (e.g. Imbir, 2015Imbir, , 2016, or food craving (Miccoli et al, 2016) for individual research questions. However most frequently, they are modified by inserting interpictorial steps without figures, creating 9-point scales with five SAM-figures (e.g.…”