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ANEW
ANEW
Bradley, M.M., & Lang, P.J. (1999). Affective norms for English words
(ANEW). Gainesville, FL. The NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and
Attention,University of Florida.
There are over 1000 words currently normed in ANEW, using the Self-
Assessment Manikin (SAM) to acquire ratings of pleasure, arousal, and
dominance. Each rating scale runs from 1 to 9, with a rating of '1'
indicating a low value on each dimension (e.g., low pleasure, low
arousal,low dominance) and '9' high on each dimension (high pleasure,
high arousal, high dominance). Listed below are the words, followed by
the ANEW word number, and then the mean and standard deviation for
valence, arousal, and dominance ratings. The final column lists the word
frequency, taken from Kucera and Francis (1967) norms, and is the number
of times the word appeared in the data base that Kucera and Francis
used. Thus, a higher number is more frequent word. Following the tab-
delimited norms for all subjects are the same set of words with
affective norms for male subjects only,followed by the norms for female
subjects.
All subjects
Male Subjects
Female Subjects