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Tomas Engelthaler1, Thomas T Hills2
1Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV47AL, UK. T.Engelthaler@warwick.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Humor ratings are provided for 4,997 English words collected from 821 participants using an online crowd-sourcing platform. Each participant rated 211 words on a scale from 1 (humorless) to 5 (humorous). To provide for comparisons across norms, words were chosen from a set common to a number of previously collected norms (e.g., arousal, valence, dominance, concreteness, age of acquisition, and reaction time). The complete dataset provides researchers with a list of humor ratings and includes information on gender, age, and educational differences. Results of analyses show that the ratings have reliability on a par with previous ratings and are not well predicted by existing norms.
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