単語の感情価と覚醒度にもとづいた単語刺激の作成

Abstract

The purpose of current study was to survey about emotional valence and arousal of words. Emotional information often caused memory facilitation and memory suppression. Thus, it is necessary to control emotional factors such as emotional valence and arousal for memory experiment with emotionality. Accordingly, present study investigated not only emotional valence but also arousal for create standardize words of arousal. Based on ANEW (Affective Norms for English Words; Bradley & Lang, 1999), 1034 English words were translated into Japanese words and 70 university students were asked to rate about emotional valence and arousal each 345 words. This investigation set on SAM (Self-Assessment Manikin; Lang, 1980) for rate to emotional valence and arousal. Result of evaluation was listed at the end.