Using the World-Wide Web to obtain large-scale word norms: 190,212 ratings on a set of 2,654 German nouns

• Published in: Behavior research methods Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 13 - 19
• Main Authors: Lahl, Olaf, Göritz, Anja S., Pietrowsky, Reinhard, Rosenberg, Jessica
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer New York 01.02.2009; Psychonomic Society, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Arousal; Behavior; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Behavioral sciences; Cluster Analysis; Cognitive Psychology; Computational Linguistics; Computer Applications; Concrete versus Abstract; Connotation; Data collection; Emotions; Female; German; Germany; Humans; Internet; Language; Linguistics; Male; Norms; Nouns; Psycholinguistics - instrumentation; Psychology; R&D; Ratings & rankings; Research & development; Sample size; Semantics; Studies; Vocabulary; Germany; Word Pool; Word Norm; Ambiguous Word; Internet Protocol Address; Behavior Research Method

This article presents a new database of 2,654 German nouns rated by a sample of 3,907 subjects on three psycholinguistic attributes: concreteness, valence, and arousal. As a new means of data collection in the field of psycholinguistic research, all ratings were obtained via the Internet, using a ta...