RT journal article
T1 The Impact of Context on Affective Norms: A Case of Study With Suspense
A1 Torre Moreno, Pablo de la
A1 Salguero Hidalgo, Alberto Gabriel
A1 León, Carlos
A1 Tapscott, Alan
A2 Ingeniería Informática
K1 affective norms
K1 situational context
K1 valence
K1 arousal
K1 dominance
K1 suspense
K1 Spanish S-ANEW
AB The emotional response to a stimulus is typically measured in three variables calledvalence, arousal and dominance. Based on such dimensions, Bradley and Lang (1999)published the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW), a corpus of affective ratingsfor 1,034 non-contextualized words. Expanded and adapted to many languages, ANEWprovides a corpus to evaluate and to predict human responses to different stimuli, andit has been used in a number of studies involving analysis of emotions. However, ANEWseems not to appropriately predict affective responses to concepts when these arecontextualized in certain situational backgrounds, in which words can have differentconnotations from those in non-contextualized scenarios. These contextualized affectivenorms have not been sufficiently contrasted yet because the literature does not providea corpus of the ANEW list in specific contexts. On this basis, this paper reports on thecreation of a new corpus of affective norms for the original 1,034 ANEW words in aparticular context (a fictional scene of suspense). An extensive quantitative data analysiscomparing both corpora was carried out, confirming that the affective ratings are highlyinfluenced by the context.
PB FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
SN 1664-1078
YR 2019
FD 2019-08
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21725
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21725
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 13-nov-2026