. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 9.

Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2000 Apr;46(2):342–369.

Table 6.

Mean Affective Ratings (and Standard Deviations) of Individual Items in Experiment 4

		Age (in years)
Lexical content	Paralanguage	4	7	10
You’ll never behave yourself	angry	1.89 (0.33)	2.00 (0.00)	2.00 (0.00)
	happy	1.39 (0.49)	1.67 (0.43)	1.22 (0.36)
Don’t play around with me child	angry	2.00 (0.00)	2.00 (0.00)	1.94(0.17)
	happy	1.39 (0.42)	1.50 (0.43)	1.11 (0.33)
You’re being punished; you stay right there	angry	2.00 (0.00)	2.00 (0.00)	2.00 (0.00)
	happy	1.67(0.35)	1.83(0.25)	1.50(0.35)
Oh good you got them all	angry	1.39 (0.49)	1.78 (0.36)	1.94(0.17)
	happy	1.11 (0.33)	1.06(0.17)	1.00 (0.00)
You play very well	angry	1.27(0.26)	1.61 (0.42)	1.89 (0.22)
	happy	1.17(0.25)	1.00 (0.00)	1.05(0.17)
You’re my favorite person	angry	1.17(0.25)	1.06(0.17)	1.39 (0.42)
	happy	1.17(0.35)	1.00 (0.00)	1.00 (0.00)

Note: A rating of 1 = happy and 2 = mad.