The use of emoticons and emoji is increasingly popular across a variety of new platforms of
online communication. They have also become popular as stimulus materials in scientific …

The psychometric instruments used in cross-linguistic or cross-cultural research are typically
developed in one language and then translated into another. The authors address …

Visual complexity has been known to be a significant predictor of preference for artistic
works for some time. The first study reported here examines the extent to which perceived …

Abstract The Paivio, Yuille, and Madigan (1968) norms for 925 nouns were extended in two
ways. The first extension involved the collecting of a much more extensive and diverse set of …

Résumé Cet article présente des normes de concrétude, de valeur d'imagerie, de fréquence
subjective et de valence émotionnelle pour 866 mots. Ces normes ont été collectées auprès …

Complexity is conventionally defined as the level of detail or intricacy contained within a
picture. The study of complexity has received relatively little attention—in part, because of …

In psychology, lexical norms related to the semantic properties of words, such as
concreteness and valence, are important research resources. Collecting such norms by …

Imageability is a psycholinguistic variable that indicates how well a word gives rise to a
mental image or sensory experience. Imageability ratings are used extensively in …

The most frequent names in Spanish corresponding to a set of 247 pictures in the
Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980) norms were used as stimuli in a discrete free-association …

Despite accruing evidence showing that positive emotions facilitate stress recovery, the
neural basis for this effect remains unclear. To identify the underlying mechanism, we …