title: Nencki Affective Word List (NAWL): the cultural adaptation of the Berlin Affective Word List-Reloaded (BAWL-R) for Polish.
abstract: In the present article, we introduce the Nencki Affective Word List (NAWL), created in order to provide researchers with a database of 2,902 Polish words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives, with ratings of emotional valence, arousal, and imageability. Measures of several objective psycholinguistic features of the words (frequency, grammatical class, and number of letters) are also controlled. The database is a Polish adaptation of the Berlin Affective Word List-Reloaded (BAWL-R; Võ et al., Behavior Research Methods 41:534-538, 2009), commonly used to investigate the affective properties of German words. Affective normative ratings were collected from 266 Polish participants (136 women and 130 men). The emotional ratings and psycholinguistic indexes provided by NAWL can be used by researchers to better control the verbal materials they apply and to adjust them to specific experimental questions or issues of interest. The NAWL is freely accessible to the scientific community for noncommercial use as supplementary material to this article.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Neurobiology Centre, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland. m.riegel@nencki.gov.pl.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Riegel
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Neurobiology Centre, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wierzba
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Neurobiology Centre, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wypych
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Łukasz
authors.initials: Ł
authors.lastname: Żurawski
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jednoróg
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland.|University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grabowska
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Neurobiology Centre, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland. a.marchewka@nencki.gov.pl.
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marchewka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001143:Arousal; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011044:Poland; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014177:Translations; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Affective ratings; Affective verbal stimuli; Arousal; Berlin affective word list–reloaded; Emotion; Imageability; Nencki affective word list; Valence