著者

五島 史子 Fumiko GOTOH

出版者

埼玉学園大学

雑誌

埼玉学園大学紀要. 人間学部篇 (ISSN:13470515)

巻号頁・発行日

no.18, pp.195-206, 2018-12

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The present survey studied the relationship between arousal and affective valence in affective two-compound kanji words. 111 students worked on a list of 389 words that had been rated for valence in Gotoh and Ohta (2001). Participants indicated on a 7-point Likert scale from 1 (low) to 7 (high) the arousal (Please judge for each word how much it gives you physical or emotional excitation) from each of 122 negative (e.g., crisis, weapon), 121 neutral (e.g., ticket, member), and 146 positive words (e.g., friendship, courage). Mean arousal levels were 3.3, 2.4, and 3.6 for negative, neutral, and positive words, respectively, reflecting a partial dissociation of arousal and valence. I discuss the processing differences between the affective valence of and arousal from words in terms of behavioral science and neuroscience.