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The study presented here provides researchers with a revised list of affective German words, the Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R). This work is an extension of the previously published BAWL (Võ, Jacobs, & Conrad, 2006), which has enabled researchers to investigate affective word processing with highly controlled stimulus material. The lack of arousal ratings, however, necessitated a revised version of the BAWL. We therefore present the BAWL-R, which is the first list that not only contains a large set of psycholinguistic indexes known to influence word processing, but also features ratings regarding emotional arousal, in addition to emotional valence and imageability. The BAWL-R is intended to help researchers create stimulus material for a wide range of experiments dealing with the affective processing of German verbal material.
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This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (research unit “Conflicts as signals in cognitive systems,” TP 3 Jacobs, JA 823/4-1; Research Grant JA 823/3-2) and the Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion” to the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Võ, M.L.H., Conrad, M., Kuchinke, L. et al. The Berlin Affective Word List Reloaded (BAWL-R). Behavior Research Methods 41, 534–538 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.41.2.534
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