title: Affective norms for 720 French words rated by children and adolescents (FANchild).
abstract: FANchild (French Affective Norms for Children) provides norms of valence and arousal for a large corpus of French words (N = 720) rated by 908 French children and adolescents (ages 7, 9, 11, and 13). The ratings were made using the Self-Assessment Manikin (Lang, 1980). Because it combines evaluations of arousal and valence and includes ratings provided by 7-, 9-, 11-, and 13-year-olds, this database complements and extends existing French-language databases. Good response reliability was observed in each of the four age groups. Despite a significant level of consensus, we found age differences in both the valence and arousal ratings: Seven- and 9-year-old children gave higher mean valence and arousal ratings than did the other age groups. Moreover, the tendency to judge words positively (i.e., positive bias) decreased with age. This age- and sex-related database will enable French-speaking researchers to study how the emotional character of words influences their cognitive processing, and how this influence evolves with age. FANchild is available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine_Monnier/contributions .
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Epsylon, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Route de Mende, 34, 199, Montpellier Cedex 5, France. catherine.monnier@univ-montp3.fr.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Monnier
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Epsylon, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Route de Mende, 34, 199, Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
authors.forename: Arielle
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Syssau
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: Affective norms; Age differences; Arousal; French words; Valence