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emoFinder

About emoFinder

EmoFinder is a web-based search engine for Spanish word properties from different normative databases. It makes available a large number of subjective word properties for more than 30,000 words, mainly focusing on normative ratings for emotional dimensions (valence, arousal) and discrete emotional categories (fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness). Yet, it also includes ratings from other relevant word properties, such as familiarity, concreteness, contextual availability, and age-of- acquisition. Users are allowed to search for words that meet some criteria on the selected properties (e.g., words having a value higher than 6 in arousal ratings), or to obtain the properties for a set of words (e.g., valence, arousal, and concreteness ratings for the words "love", "dead" and "bear"). The tool will be updated periodically to include word properties from new available Spanish normative databases.

EmoFinder was developed by the Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group, from the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the Psycholinguistics Research Group, from the University Rovira i Virgili. This work was funded by the Government of the Autonomous Community of Galicia (modality of Competitive Research Groups, GRC 2015/006) and by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain (MINECO/FEDER, Grant Nos. PSI2015-65116-P and PSI2015-63525-P).

EmoFinder comprises the following databases:

  • Alonso, M. A., Fernandez, A., & Díez, E. (2015). Subjective age-of-acquisition norms for 7,039 Spanish words. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 268–274. doi:10.3758/s13428-014-0454-2  
  • Ferré, P., Guasch, M., Martínez-García, N., Fraga, I., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2017). Moved by words: Affective ratings for a set of 2,266 Spanish words in five discrete emotion categories. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1082-1094. doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0768-3  
  • Ferré, P., Guasch, M., Moldovan, C., & Sánchez-Casas, R. (2012). Affective norms for 380 Spanish words belonging to three different semantic categories.Behavior Research Methods, 44, 395–403. doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0165-x  
  • González-Nosti, M., Barbón, A., Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J., & Cuetos, F. (2014). Effects of the psycholinguistic variables on the lexical decision task in Spanish: A study with 2,765 words. Behavior Research Methods, 46, 517–525. doi:10.3758/s13428-013-0383-5  
  • Guasch, M., Ferré, P., & Fraga, I. (2016). Spanish norms for affective and lexico-semantic variables for 1,400 words. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 1358–1369. doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0684-y  
  • Hinojosa, J. A., Martínez-García, N., Villalba-García, C., Fernández-Folgueiras, U., Sánchez-Carmona, A., Pozo, M. A., & Montoro, P. R. (2016). Affective norms of 875 Spanish words for five discrete emotional categories and two emotional dimensions. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 272–284. doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0572-5  
  • Hinojosa, J. A., Rincón-Pérez, I., Romero-Ferreiro, M. V., Martínez-García, N., Villalba-García, C., Montoro, P. R., & Pozo, M. A. (2016). The Madrid Affective Database for Spanish (MADS): Ratings of Dominance, Familiarity, Subjective Age of Acquisition and Sensory Experience. PLoS ONE, 11(5): e0155866. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155866  
  • Redondo, J., Fraga, I., Comesaña, M., & Perea, M. (2005). Estudio normativo del valor afectivo de 478 palabras españolas. Psicológica, 26, 317–326.  
  • Redondo, J., Fraga, I., Padrón, I., & Comesaña, M. (2007). The Spanish adaptation of ANEW (Affective Norms for English Words). Behavior Research Methods, 39, 600–605. doi:10.3758/bf03193031  
  • Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H., Imbault, C., Pérez Sánchez, M. A., & Brysbaert, M. (2017). Norms of valence and arousal for 14,031 Spanish words. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 111-123. doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0700-2  


If you use Emofinder, please, cite it. Thank you. To cite Emofinder:

Fraga, I., Guasch, M., Haro, J. et al. Behav Res (2018). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-1006-3

If you have any query, please contact: isabel.fraga@usc.es