Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words

Agnes Moors; Jan De Houwer; Dirk Hermans; Sabine Wanmaker; Kevin van Schie; Anne Laura Van Harmelen; Maarten De Schryver; Jeffrey De Winne; Marc Brysbaert

doi:10.3758/s13428-012-0243-8

Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words

Agnes Moors^*, Jan De Houwer, Dirk Hermans, Sabine Wanmaker, Kevin van Schie, Anne Laura Van Harmelen, Maarten De Schryver, Jeffrey De Winne, Marc Brysbaert

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This article presents norms of valence/pleasantness, activity/arousal, power/dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words, mainly nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. The norms are based on ratings with a 7-point Likert scale by independent groups of students from two Belgian (Ghent and Leuven) and two Dutch (Rotterdam and Leiden-Amsterdam) samples. For each variable, we obtained high split-half reliabilities within each sample and high correlations between samples. In addition, the valence ratings of a previous, more limited study (Hermans & De Houwer, Psychologica Belgica, 34:115-139, 1994) correlated highly with those of the present study. Therefore, the new norms are a valuable source of information for affective research in the Dutch language.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	169-177
Number of pages	9
Journal	Behavior Research Methods
Volume	45
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0243-8
Publication status	Published - 4 Mar 2013

Keywords

Age of acquisition
Arousal
Dominance
Frequency
Lexical norms
Valence
Word length

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