A reconsideration of the structure of the emotion lexicon

被引:22
作者
Alvarado, N [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717 USA
关键词
Data Analysis; Cluster Analysis; Social Psychology; Hierarchical Cluster; Decision Criterion;
D O I
10.1023/A:1021356424065
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This study replicated a pile sort task involving 135 emotion terms originally presented by Shaver, Schwartz, Kirson, and O'Connor (1987) with a slight change in procedures, from an unconstrained single-sort task to a constrained successive-sort task, made necessary by methodological problems during their data analysis. Subjects (86 male and female undergraduates) were asked to assign names to their piles during the successive stages of sorting. This change produced a hierarchical cluster analysis solution supporting interpretations other than the prototype structure found by Shaver et al.. Decision criteria reported by subjects during sorting were described and revealed dimensions reported by previous investigators, suggesting that this is a viable method of determining dimensions important in distinguishing emotion terms.
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页码:329 / 344
页数:16
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