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. 2023 Dec;55(8):4018-4034.
doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-02003-2. Epub 2022 Oct 28.

CROWD-5e: A Croatian psycholinguistic database of affective norms for five discrete emotions

Bojana Ćoso  1 , Marc Guasch  2 , Irena Bogunović  3 , Pilar Ferré  2 , José A Hinojosa  4   5   6
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CROWD-5e: A Croatian psycholinguistic database of affective norms for five discrete emotions

Bojana Ćoso et al. Behav Res Methods. 2023 Dec.

Abstract

The present study introduces affective norms for a set of 3022 Croatian words on five discrete emotions: happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. The words were rated by 1239 Croatian native speakers. Each participant rated 251 or 252 words for one discrete emotion on a five-point Likert scale. The analyses revealed a significant relationship between discrete emotions, emotional dimensions (valence and arousal), and other psycholinguistic properties of words. In addition, small sex differences in discrete emotion ratings were found. Finally, the analysis of the distribution of words among discrete emotions allowed a distinction between "pure" words (i.e., those mostly related to a single emotion) and "mixed" words (i.e., those related to more than one emotion). The new database extends the existing Croatian affective norms collected from a dimensional conception of emotions, providing the necessary resource for future experimental investigation in Croatian within the theoretical framework of discrete emotions.

Keywords: Anger; Discrete emotions; Disgust; Emotional ratings; Fear; Happiness; Sadness.

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