Method
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Participants
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In this study participated a total of XXX university students, most of
them recruited in the psychology first year courses. 75% of them were
students from University of La Sabana and 25% from University Minuto de
Dios. All them reported no visual impairments. 89% where woman and 11%
men. Age range was 16 to 27 years.
Materials
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We selected 1917 words from Algarabel normative study. The reason behind
this was to compare the agradability scores with our emotional valence
in order to control the data obtained. Unfortunately, four words were
missed due to technical problems (the words were: Comedia and
Fama ) so the total number of words we have scores for is 1913.
Procedure
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Words were imported to Qualtics and placed in a single block. Every word
was revised for spelling before imported. For each word a single 7
Likert scale was created by coping the setup format of previous
questions. The complete set of 1917 words were randomized and
counterbalanced, and later were set up for each participant to score
only 250 words. Each participant was placed in a controlled environment
and a computer or a tablet were provided to each one in order to assure
everyone could do the task individually. The application was performed
in groups up to 25 people. General instructions were given to all the
participants and then individual screens with specific instructions
appeared in the first slide of the test. In order to best capture the
possible differences that can emerge between this study and other with
similar goals, care was taken in instruct the subjects to respond only
those words that they know. In case the word was not known by the
participant, instructions were given to them to leave the word unscored.
By doing this we expected to have an additional measure related to the
knowledge of the set that was originally used whit Spaniard
participants.
Before starting each participant signed an inform consent according to
the ethical board of the University of La Sabana. The mean time employed
by the participants to fulfil the task was 20 min.