Pleasantness and Emotionality of Words: Relation When Stimuli are Controlled
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 69 (3_suppl) , 1337-1338
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1989.69.3f.1337
Abstract
We affirm that there is no correlation between values of pleasantness-unpleasantness and emotionality; however, the level of pleasantness and of unpleasantness influence the intensity of emotionality. We presented four lists of-words (concrete-pleasant, concrete-unpleasant, abstract-pleasant, abstract-unpleasant) to 120 subjects who scored each word on two scales, pleasantness and emotionality. We obtained a correlation of .01 between the two variables; however, we found a positive correlation (.55) when we used pleasant words and a negative correlation (−.58) when we used unpleasant words.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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