Meaningfulness values of words: relation to concreteness, imagery, emotionality, and interest.
We estimated that, contrary to previous studies, there was a positive correlation between ratings of meaningfulness and of emotionality of words. The correlation was .36 between ratings of meaningfulness and emotionality obtained by Campos and González but .03 with ratings obtained in 1990 by Campos. Hypothesized positive correlations for ratings of meaningfulness with ratings of concreteness, imagery, and interest were significant.
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University of Santiago de Compostela, Departamento de Psicología Básica, Spain.
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003210:Concept Formation; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning