title: Cross-validating the Berlin Affective Word List.
abstract: We introduce the Berlin Affective Word List (BAWL) in order to provide researchers with a German database containing both emotional valence and imageability ratings for more than 2,200 German words. The BAWL was cross-validated using a forced choice valence decision task in which two distinct valence categories (negative or positive) had to be assigned to a highly controlled selection of 360 words according to varying emotional content (negative, neutral, or positive). The reaction time (RT) results corroborated the valence categories: Words that had been rated as "neutral" in the norms yielded maximum RTs. The BAWL is intended to help researchers create stimulus materials for a wide range of experiments dealing with the emotional processing of words.
authors: Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. lehoa@psy.uni-muenchen.de
authors: Melissa L H
authors: ML
authors: Võ
authors: Arthur M
authors: AM
authors: Jacobs
authors: Markus
authors: M
authors: Conrad
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D013067:Speech Perception; D014825:Vocabulary