Abstract
Zusammenfassung: Die evaluative Komponente von Einstellungen ist in vielen sozialpsychologischen Forschungsfeldern von Bedeutung. Um für zukünftige Untersuchungen in diesem Bereich eine normierte Skalierung unterschiedlicher Aspekte der evaluativen Bewertung von Einstellungsobjekten bereitzustellen, wurde 72 Probanden die deutsche Übersetzung einer in der Einstellungsforschung bereits häufig verwendeten und standardisierten Menge von 92 Substantiven zur Beurteilung vorgelegt. Erhoben wurde neben der Wortlänge und der Worthäufigkeit die evaluative Bewertung auf einer bipolaren Skala, getrennte Ratings der Positivität und der Negativität auf unipolaren Skalen, zwei Indizes der Ambivalenz, der Prozentsatz von «positiv»-Antworten bei einer binären evaluativen Entscheidung sowie die mittlere Reaktionszeit bei der evaluativen Entscheidung. Die vollständigen Ergebnisse der Normierung werden in einem Anhang wiedergegeben.
Summary: The evaluative component of attitudes is of importance in many fields of social psychological research. In order to provide standardized norms of different aspects of the evaluative component of attitude objects for future studies in these fields, the German translation of a set of 92 nouns that was often used in previous attitude research was administered to 72 subjects. Evaluation on a bipolar scale, separate ratings of positivity and negativity on unipolar scales, two indices of ambivalence, the proportion of «positive»-answers in a binary evaluative decision task and the mean latency for this evaluative decision were recorded in addition to word length and word frequency. The complete results of the standardization are reproduced in an appendix.
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