title: Concreteness, context availability, and imageability ratings and word associations for abstract, concrete, and emotion words.
abstract: Normative values on various word characteristics were obtained for abstract, concrete, and emotion words in order to facilitate research on concreteness effects and on the similarities and differences among the three word types. A sample of 78 participants rated abstract, concrete, and emotion words on concreteness, context availability, and imagery scales. Word associations were also gathered for abstract, concrete, and emotion words. The data were used to investigate similarities and differences among these three word types on word attributes, association strengths, and number of associations. These normative data can be used to further research on concreteness effects, word type effects, and word recognition for abstract, concrete, and emotion words.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Albany, SUNY 12222, USA. ja087@csc.albany.edu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Altarriba
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Benvenuto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003210:Concept Formation; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D009518:New York; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012660:Semantics; D014936:Word Association Tests