Table 1.
The Cornell/Cortland Emotion Lists
| Valence/arousal | Property |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Valence | Mean arousal | Mean BAS | |||
| List | CD | List | CD | ||
| Negative/high | |||||
| Cold | 5.30 | 4.02 | 4.50 | 5.19 | .23 |
| Hurt | 2.96 | 1.9 | 5.72 | 5.85 | .21 |
| Thief | 3.61 | 2.13 | 5.66 | 6.89 | .10 |
| Spider | 4.64 | 3.33 | 5.16 | 5.71 | .16 |
| Dead | 4.18 | 1.94 | 4.94 | 5.73 | .11 |
| Anger | 3.73 | 2.85 | 7.10 | 7.17 | .16 |
| Needle | 4.48 | 3.82 | 4.88 | 5.36 | .20 |
| Grand means | 4.27 | 3.09 | 5.27 | 5.90 | .16 |
| Positive/High | |||||
| God | 6.25 | 8.15 | 5.58 | 5.95 | .23 |
| Baby | 6.14 | 8.22 | 5.06 | 5.53 | .18 |
| Love | 7.10 | 8.72 | 4.82 | 6.44 | .17 |
| Music | 6.14 | 8.13 | 4.54 | 5.32 | .18 |
| City | 5.40 | 6.03 | 4.98 | 5.24 | .14 |
| Beach | 6.78 | 8.03 | 5.13 | 5.53 | .13 |
| Hug | 6.94 | 8.00 | 4.73 | 5.53 | .11 |
| Pretty | 6.29 | 7.75 | 4.99 | 6.03 | .11 |
| Grand means | 6.38 | 7.88 | 4.98 | 5.70 | .16 |
| Negative/low: | |||||
| Sick | 3.91 | 1.9 | 5.04 | 4.29 | .26 |
| Fat | 5.54 | 2.28 | 4.55 | 4.81 | .13 |
| Shy | 5.00 | 4.64 | 4.98 | 3.77 | .14 |
| Dirt | 4.85 | 4.17 | 4.39 | 3.76 | .21 |
| Board | 5.75 | 4.82 | 4.99 | 3.36 | .13 |
| Trash | 4.15 | 2.67 | 4.43 | 4.16 | .14 |
| Glass | 5.73 | 4.75 | 4.66 | 4.27 | .13 |
| Fall | 4.59 | 4.31 | 4.94 | 4.70 | .11 |
| Grand means | 4.94 | 3.69 | 4.75 | 4.14 | .16 |
| Postive/low | |||||
| Soft | 5.77 | 7.12 | 4.40 | 4.63 | .18 |
| Green | 5.28 | 6.18 | 4.26 | 4.28 | .09 |
| Nice | 6.36 | 6.55 | 5.19 | 4.38 | .09 |
| Sleep | 6.12 | 7.20 | 3.70 | 2.80 | .19 |
| Bird | 6.51 | 7.27 | 4.47 | 3.17 | .39 |
| Grass | 6.31 | 6.12 | 4.57 | 4.14 | .15 |
| Fish | 6.07 | 6.04 | 5.30 | 4.00 | .17 |
| River | 6.25 | 6.85 | 4.42 | 4.51 | .15 |
| Grand means | 6.08 | 6.67 | 4.54 | 4.00 | .18 |
Note. List = the 15 words on each list, CD = the critical distractor for each list, BAS = mean backward associative strength from the 15 list words to the critical distractor for each list, as computed from Nelson, McEvoy, and Schreiber’s (1999) norms of word association. For the 15 list words, some of the words on each list are not available in existing word norms for valence and arousal (Bradley & Lang, 1999; Toglia & Battig, 1978). The tabled means for valence and arousal of list words are therefore based on the words that are available in these norms.