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A dataset containing the valence, arousal, and dominance scores for nearly 14,000 English lemmas from Warriner, Kuperman, and Brysbaert 2013. The dataset is further divided into various groups of raters: Sum Total, Male, Female, Older, Younger, High Education, Low Education. To just use the aggregate sums over all groups, use the `group` variable to filter on only "Sum" rows. See Warriner et al (2013) for an analysis of group differences: "We note that group differences (gender, education level, and age), while interesting, are actually quite limited. Taking a conservative p < .01 as our definition of a significant difference, fewer than 100 words per dimension meet this criterion (education and arousal include more, with nearly 200 words each). In terms of gender, the differences seem to occur primarily in categories related to sex, violence, and other taboo topics. When these stereotypical domains are under investigation, we do advise people to consider gender differences in the ratings. The semantic categories for other group differences were more difficult to define. In general, unless there is an already established reason to consider group differences, using the overall. Sum ratings is, we feel, completely valid."

Usage

wkb_vad

Format

A data frame with 13,914 rows and 65 variables.

Source

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0314-x

Variables

Variables:

  • term. unique word

  • valence_mean. valence mean for respective group, score for positive/negative

  • valence_sd. standard deviation for valence

  • valence_raters. number of raters

  • arousal_mean. arousal mean for respective group, score for active/calm

  • arousal_sd. standard deviation for arousal

  • arousal_raters. number of raters

  • dominance_mean. dominance mean for respective group, score for powerful/weak

  • dominance_sd. standard deviation for dominance

  • dominance_raters. number of raters

  • group. rating group. Includes "Sum" (the overall ratings), "Male", "Female", "Older", "Younger", "High Education", "Low Education".