Table 2.

Valence–Arousal Correlations for Items in the Quantiles With the Lowest and Highest Mean Valence Standard Deviation and for Items in the Full Sample, Separately for Each Database

Database and subfile	Lowest quantile	Highest quantile	Full sample
Emotional words
Affective Norms for English Words
Negative	.71**	.22**	.46**
Positive	.84**	.49**	.64**
Toglia-Battig emotional
Negative	.64**	.33**	.45**
Positive	.38**	.20**	.28**
Warriner, Kuperman, and Brysbaert norms
Negative	.63**	.25**	.42**
Positive	.62**	.05*	.27**
Emotional pictures
EmoPics
Negative
Positive	.87**	.67**	.79**
International Affective Picture System
Negative	.94**	.14**	.70**
Positive	.63**	.20**	.37**
Nencki Affective Picture System
Negative	.95**	.52**	.78**
Positive	.65**	.52*	.48**

^*p < .002. **p < .0001.