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.