Abstract
Forty-eight subjects (24 men, 24 women) responded to 20 word stimuli presented by a microcomputer program that recorded each subject's response latency and response to each stimulus word. Emotionality of stimulus word and presence/absence of an observer were independently varied. Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed significant difference in latencies attributable to the emotionality of the stimulus word, whereas neither the presence/absence of the observer nor the interaction effect was significant. The results suggest the possible use of latency analysis as a tool in situations where an objective, statistical, and easily obtainable evaluative measurement of the level of emotionality of various verbal stimuli is desired.
Publication Date
1990
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
Psychology (CLA)
Recommended Citation
Isaacs, M., & Chen, K. (1990). Presence/Absence of an Observer in a Word Association Test. Journal of Personality Assessment, 55(1-2), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.1990.9674045
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment in 1990, published online on 22 June 2011, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223891.1990.9674045
ISSN:0022-3891 Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works in February 2014.