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.
N = 1225
Identities: 721
Behaviors: 600
Modifiers: 440
Setting: 345
Cite as:
Smith-Lovin, Lynn, and David R. Heise. Mean Affective Ratings of 2,106 Concepts by University of North Carolina Undergraduates in 1978 [Computer file]. Distributed at Affect Control Theory Website, Program Interact <http://www.indiana.edu/~socpsy/ACT/interact/JavaInteract.html>, 2006.
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