Pleasure and Activation Revisited: Dimensions Underlying Semantic Responses to Fifty Randomly Selected “Emotional” Words
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 53 (3) , 871-874
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1981.53.3.871
Abstract
49 subjects rated 50 words of affect randomly selected from a dictionary. Factor analyses of the 11 scales used documented the presence of a Pleasure factor and an Activation factor that jointly explained 86% of the variance. With the addition of Personal-ness as a third factor, 92.6% of the variance in mean ratings could be accounted for, and 5 clear clusters of words emerged.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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