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Dictionaries of Affective
Meanings
The following data sets are used in Interact and
may
be downloaded from the program for research, conditional on accepting
the terms of
use.
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U.S.A.:
Indiana, 2003. Ratings of 500 Identities, 500 Behaviors, 300
Modifiers, and 200 Settings
were collected at Indiana University, via the Internet using the
Surveyor
applet. The 1027 respondents lived in the U.S.A. at age 16,
and were about equally male and female. Details on stimuli
and instrumentation. Details on sample of
respondents. Respondent ratings.
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U.S.A.:
Texas, 1998. Ratings of 443 Identities, 278 Behaviors, 65
Modifiers, and 1 Setting were collected at Texas Tech University with
the Attitude program. The
482 respondents were nearly equally male and female. |
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U.S.A.:
North Carolina, 1978. Ratings of 721 Identities, 600
Behaviors, 440 Modifiers, and 345 Settings were obtained with paper
questionnaires from 1,225 North Carolina undergraduates. (Ratings for
some emotion words in this data set were obtained by Heise from Indiana
University undergraduates in 1985.) Number of male or female raters
generally is about 25 for each word.
Funded by National Institute of Mental Health Grant
1-R01-MH29978-01-SSR. |
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Canada:
Ontario, 1980-6. Data on
843 Identities and 593 Behaviors were obtained
from 5,534 Guelph, Ontario, undergraduates with paper questionnaires in
1980-3, and 495 Modifiers rated by 1,260 Guelph undergraduates were
added in 1985-6.
Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Canada:
Ontario, 2001-3. Data on 993 Identities, 601 Behaviors, and
500 Modifiers, and 200 Settings were gathered with the Attitude program
from Guelph, Ontario, undergraduates in 2001-2. Data on
settings were gathered with the Surveyor program at Guelph in 2003.
Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Japan,
1989-2002. Ratings of
403 Identities and 307 Behaviors, and a few Settings were obtained with
the
Attitude program from 323 Tohoku University students in 1989. In 1995
and
1996, 120 women students at Kyoritsu Women's, Japan Women's, and Teikyo
Universities and 120 men students at Teikyo and Rikkyo Universities
rated an
additional 300 settings, 300 modifiers (mainly traits), 200 business
identities, and 75 behaviors. Yoichi Murase (Rikkyo University)
and Nozomu Matsubara (Tokyo University) provided access to students who
rated 102 emotions, 70 behaviors and 55 identities in 2002
using Surveyor. Total numbers of entries in Interact lexicon are: 713
Identities, 455 Behaviors, 426 Modifiers, and 300 Settings. Number of
male or female raters generally is about 30 for
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Cite as:
Smith, Herman W., Takanori Matsuno, Shuuichirou Ike, and Michio Umino.
Mean Affective Ratings of
1,894 Concepts by Japanese Undergraduates, 1989-2002 [Computer file].
Distributed at Affect Control Theory Website, Program Interact <http://www.indiana.edu/~socpsy/ACT/interact/JavaInteract.html>,
2006.
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Mainland
China,
1991. Ratings of 449
Identities, 300 Behaviors, 98 Emotions, 150 Traits, and 149 Settings
were obtained with Attitude from about
380 undergraduate students at Fudan University in Shanghai, Peoples
Republic
of China, 1999-2000. |
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Germany,
1989.
Ratings of 442 Identities, 295 Behaviors, and 67
Modifiers, selected
for back-translatability with the 1978 U.S.A. dictionary were obtained
with
the Attitude program from 520 Mannheim students. Subjects were matched
to the American
undergraduate population by proportional inclusion of 12 and 13 grade
youths
at two German Studenten des Grundstudiums and Gymnasiasten, along with
subjects from Mannheim University, which attracts students mainly from
the
Rhein-Neckar region in former West Germany. |
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Germany,
2007.
Ratings of 376 Identities, 393 Behaviors, 331
Modifiers,. (Some of the words are classified as 19 settings in Interact.) Ratings
were obtained with Surveyor from 1905 subjects
(734 male and 1171 female) from all over Germany. The research was
advertised as a “study of language and
emotion” in an extensive recruitment campaign including mailing lists
from different
universities, weblogs, newspaper reports and radio interviews. Most of
the
participants (N = 1029) were between 20 and 29 years of age, but the
sample
covered all ages, including N = 129 being younger than 20 and N = 92
older than
60 years. The data of 83 persons (4.4 %) were excluded from the
analysis, as they
had indicated German not being their mother tongue. |
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Northern
Ireland, 1977. Ratings of
528 Identities and 498 Behaviors were obtained with paper
questionnaires from 319
Belfast teenagers in Catholic high schools in 1977.
Ratings of modifiers and settings were not obtained in the Belfast
study. Up
to 18 females and 14 males rated each concept. |
Cite as:
Willigan, Dennis, and David R. Heise. Mean Affective Ratings of
1,026 Concepts by Catholic High School Students in Belfast, Northern
Ireland in 1977 [Computer file].
Distributed at Affect Control Theory Website, Program Interact <http://www.indiana.edu/~socpsy/ACT/interact/JavaInteract.html>,
2006.
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Data
from U.S.A. 1978 impression formation project. EPA and likelihood ratings for
515 events, expressed as means of ratings after successive intervals
scaling, as described in L. Smith-Lovin, 1987, "The affective
control of events within settings," Journal of Mathematical Sociology
13:71-101.
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Data
from Canada 1987
impression formation project.
EPA ratings for 214 events, expressed as means of ratings after
successive intervals
scaling, as described in Neil MacKinnon, 1988, "The attribution of
traits, status characteristics, and emotions in social interaction
(Report for SSHRC Project 410-81-0089)," Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
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Project Magellan
Magellan is the ongoing research
project in Affect
Control Theory in which dictionaries of affective meaning are being
collected
around the world. Surveyor is a Java applet that
measures affective
meaning in indigenous languages, and that archives respondents' ratings
via the
Internet.
URL: www.indiana.edu/~socpsy/ACT/data.html
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