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.

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doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0243-8, hdl.handle.net/1765/40838
Behavior Research Methods (Print)
Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam

Moors, A., Houwer, J., Hermans, D., Wanmaker, S., van Schie, K., van Harmelen, A.-L., … Brysbaert, M. (2013). Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words. Behavior Research Methods (Print), 45(1), 169–177. doi:10.3758/s13428-012-0243-8