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Twenty concepts chosen randomly from the Semantic Atlas were rated by 31 undergraduate Ss on a semantic differential consisting of 40 scales defined by concrete high-frequency nouns. Principal component analysis produced a “semantic space” apparently based on associative or category clustering among the scale nouns.
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Bogartz, W., Sippola, B. A noun scale semantic differential. Psychon Sci 9, 233–234 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330845
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