An Investigation of Sex Differences in Word Ratings Across Concrete, Abstract, and Emotion Words

Bauer, Lisa; Altarriba, Jeanette

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“…The post-hoc analyses showed no obvious difference in the effects of emotional variables on word recognition across genders and no interaction of gender with emotional variables (in line with Bauer & Altarriba, 2008). Rather, the pattern of results mirrors the ones found in the original analyses, lending further support to our crucial interaction between valence and arousal dimensions.…”

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Arousal and emotional valence interact in written word recognition

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2014

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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“…Other studies report no gender differences in the ratings for affective content of written words (Bauer & Altarriba, 2008). To date, no study has investigated the effect of gender on written emotion word processing.…”

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Arousal and emotional valence interact in written word recognition

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2014

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“…There are published norms for pictures (Dan-Glauser & Scherer, in press;Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 1999;Moltó et al, 1999) and sounds (Bradley & Lang, 1999a;Fernández-Abascal et al, 2008;Redondo, Fraga, Padrón, & Piñeiro, 2008). Concerning words, the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW), developed by Bradley and Lang (1999b), is the most extensive affective database and the most widely used in studies about the emotional properties of words conducted in English, although other databases also exist (e.g., Altarriba, Bauer, & Benvenuto, 1999;Bauer & Altarriba, 2008). The ANEW has been adapted to other languages, such as Spanish (Redondo, Fraga, Padrón, & Comesaña, 2007) and Portuguese (Soares, Comesaña, Pinheiro, Simões, & Frade, in press).…”

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Affective norms for 380 Spanish words belonging to three different semantic categories

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Emotional words are increasingly used in the study of word processing. To elucidate whether the experimental effects obtained with these words are due either to their affective content or to other semantic characteristics, it is necessary to conduct experiments with affectively valenced words obtained from different semantic categories. In the present article, we present affective ratings for 380 Spanish words belonging to three semantic categories: animals, people, and objects. The norms are based on the assessments made by 504 participants, who rated about 47 words either in valence and arousal, by using the Self-Assessment Manikin (Bradley & Lang, Journal of Behavioral Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 25, 49-59. 1994), or in concreteness and familiarity. These ratings will help researchers select stimuli for experiments in which both the affective properties of words and their membership to a given semantic category have to be taken into account. The database is available as an online supplement for this article.

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“…Some of the studies show that the females are dominant in abstract thinking (Sciencedaily, 2008) whereas other studies suggest that there is not gender-based difference in terms of abstract thinking and use of abstract concepts or there is male-dominant abstract language use (Altarriba 2008;Roberts, 2010;Corpus callosum, 2011). …”

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Free Associations to the Colour Terms: Gender-Related Differences

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2017

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Word association is one of the major subjects studied in linguistics, psychology and psycholinguistics. According to Sinopalnikova (2003), the simplest experiment technique to reveal the association mechanisms is a free association test. It gives the broadest information on the way knowledge is structured in the human mind. The present study is an attempt to investigate whether the speaker's gender contributes to the quantity of associated concepts. In a word association test, a list of words is presented to subjects that are asked to response with the first word/s coming into their mind. 1037 valid concepts as a response to 11 color terms have been assembled and evaluated in terms of the number of nouns, adjectives, verbs, proper nouns, abstract concepts, syntagmatic and paradigmatic responses. The study illustrates that the gender of the speaker has effect on the number of free association to the stimulus words. (1) The female participant tend to use adjectives and verbs while almost all of the words associated by males are nouns. (2) The number of the abstract concepts shows difference according to the gender. (3) Men tend to use more proper nouns than women do. (4) Women tend to give much more paradigmatic responses than men.

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An Investigation of Sex Differences in Word Ratings Across Concrete, Abstract, and Emotion Words

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

Arousal and emotional valence interact in written word recognition

Arousal and emotional valence interact in written word recognition

Affective norms for 380 Spanish words belonging to three different semantic categories

Free Associations to the Colour Terms: Gender-Related Differences

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