RT Journal Article
T1 The bright side of words: Norms for 9000 Spanish words in seven discrete positive emotions
A1 Hinojosa Poveda, José Antonio
A1 Guasch, Marc
A1 Montoro, Pedro R.
A1 Albert Bitaube, Jacobo
A1 Fraga, Isabel
A1 Ferré, Pilar
AB In recent years, assumptions about the existence of a single construct of happiness that accounts for all positive emotions have been questioned. Instead, several discrete positive emotions with their own neurobiological and psychological mechanisms have been proposed. Of note, the effects of positive emotions on language processing are not yet properly understood. Here we provide a database for a large set of 9000 Spanish words scored by 3437 participants in the positive emotions of awe, contentment, amusement, excitement, serenity, relief, and pleasure. We also report significant correlations between discrete positive emotions and several affective (e.g., valence, arousal, happiness, negative discrete emotions) and lexico-semantic (e.g., frequency of use, familiarity, concreteness, age of acquisition) characteristics of words. Finally, we analyze differences between words conveying a single emotion (“pure” emotion words) and those denoting more than one emotion (“mixed” emotion words). This study will provide researchers a rich source of information to do research that contributes to expanding the current knowledge on the role of positive emotions in language. The norms are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21533571.v2
PB Springer Nature
SN 1554-3528
YR 2023
FD 2023-09-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104230
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104230
LA eng
NO Hinojosa, J.A., Guasch, M., Montoro, P.R. et al. The bright side of words: Norms for 9000 Spanish words in seven discrete positive emotions. Behav Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02229-8
NO 2023 Acuerdos transformativos CRUE
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025