20 subjects were provided with a set of 50 affective words and instructed to group or classify these in any way they wished. A highly successful prediction of subjects' classifications, achieved via discriminant analyses, was based on the affective dimensions of Pleasure and Arousal and on 9 additional semantic ratings available for each word. The unstructured nature of the task is interpreted as lending extremely strong support to the validity of the dimensions and ratings.
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