Abstract
Introduction: Some studies, which are engaging with the mechanisms of
word procession in the brain, are interested in the brain activity responses to
the emotional content of the words. There are also some studies which have
focused on how lexico-semantic features affect word processing by controlling
the affective dimensions. To perform such studies we need a list of affective
words in Farsi language and culture. The present study aims to make a list of
such words to be used in probable future neural processing studies of Persian
words. Materials & Methods: In this study 150 Farsi speaking college students,
with the average of 22 years of age, scored 300 Farsi words based on their
valence, being evocable, familiarity, age of acquisition and being imaginable,
by using Likert scale. Information about the frequency, objectivity and class
of words were also added to each word by researchers. Results: Within 294 studied words with clear valence, there were 237 nouns, 47
adjectives and 10 verbs. There were also 158 positive, 79 negative and 63
neutral words in this study. Data gathered for each word based on scores were
recorded in tables for future references. Conclusion: The
provided list of words and related scores in this study can be useful in order
to control or study the factors contributing to word processing in Persian
youth for future studies. The reason for different scoring paradigm in this
study with other patterns was the difference in culture and sociolinguistic
backgrounds with other cultures and languages.
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