The Affective Norms for Polish Short Texts (ANPST) Database Properties and Impact of Participants’ Population and Sex on Affective Ratings

Research has shown that emotions matter in politics, but we know less about when and why politicians use emotive rhetoric in the legislative arena. This article argues that emotive rhetoric is one of the tools politicians can use strategically to appeal to voters. Consequently, we expect that legislators are more likely to use emotive rhetoric in debates that have a large general audience. Our analysis covers two million parliamentary speeches held in the UK House of Commons and the Irish Parliament. We use a dictionary-based method to measure emotive rhetoric, combining the Affective Norms for English Words dictionary with word-embedding techniques to create a domain-specific dictionary. We show that emotive rhetoric is more pronounced in high-profile legislative debates, such as Prime Minister’s Questions. These findings contribute to the study of legislative speech and political representation by suggesting that emotive rhetoric is used by legislators to appeal directly to voters.

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Emotional words in Spanish: Adaptation and cross-cultural differences for the affective norms for English words (ANEW) on a sample of Argentinian adults

Behavior Research Methods ◽

10.3758/s13428-021-01682-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Leticia Sarli ◽

Nadia Justel

Keyword(s):

Cultural Differences ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Emotional Words ◽

Cross Cultural Differences ◽

Affective Norms

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Visual Evoked Potentials and Affective Ratings of Semantic Stimuli

Evoked Brain Potentials and Behavior ◽

10.1007/978-1-4684-3462-0_5 ◽

1979 ◽

pp. 127-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

H. Begleiter ◽

B. Porjesz ◽

R. Garozzo

Keyword(s):

Evoked Potentials ◽

Visual Evoked Potentials ◽

Affective Ratings ◽

Visual Evoked

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Cross-cultural validation of the "International affective picture system" (IAPS) on a sample from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Psihologija ◽

10.2298/psi1301017d ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 17-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Sasa Drace ◽

Emir Efendic ◽

Mirna Kusturica ◽

Lamija Landzo

Keyword(s):

Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽

North American ◽

International Affective Picture System ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Self Report ◽

Affective Ratings ◽

The North ◽

Stratified Sample ◽

Valence And Arousal ◽

Normative Ratings

In this study the normative ratings of the International Affective Picture System (IAPS, Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention [CSEA], 1995) were compared with the ratings from a Bosnian sample. Seventy-two psychology undergraduates from the University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) rated valence, dominance and arousal for a stratified sample of 60 pictures that was selected from the IAPS. Reliability coefficients indicate that the self-report ratings are internally consistent. The affective ratings from our sample correlated strongly with the North American ratings at: .95, .81 and .91, respectively for valence, arousal and dominance. Consistent with expectations, mean valence and dominance ratings did not differ significantly between the Bosnian and North American sample. Furthermore, plotting of the Bosnian valence and arousal ratings results in a similar boomerang shaped distribution as the North American affective ratings. Taken together, findings obtained from the Bosnian sample confirm the cross-cultural validity of the IAPS.

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