This study reports valence and arousal ratings for 11,310 simplified Chinese words, including 9774 two-character words, 949 three-character words, and 587 four-character words. These affective ratings are validated through comparisons with prior ratings of smaller word samples. All but four words included in this study are from the MEgastudy of Lexical Decision in Simplified CHinese (MELD-SCH) database. As age-of-acquisition ratings and concreteness ratings have recently become available for large portions of words in the MELD-SCH, the affective ratings not only further enrich the database as a valuable research tool, but also allow us to gain insight into a range of psycholinguistic constructs based on normative ratings of a large set of Chinese words. Cross-language comparisons of the valence ratings between Chinese words and English words appear to indicate cultural and sociopolitical influences reflected in affect representations.

本研究报告了 11,310 个简体中文单词的效价和唤醒等级，包括 9774 个二字词、949 个三字词和 587 个四字词。这些情感评级通过与较小单词样本的先前评级进行比较来验证。本研究中除四个单词外，所有单词均来自简体中文词汇决策MEgastudy (MELD-SCH) 数据库。由于最近 MELD-SCH 中的大部分单词都可以使用获取年龄等级和具体度等级，情感等级不仅进一步丰富了数据库作为有价值的研究工具，而且还使我们能够深入了解一个范围基于大量中文单词的规范评级的心理语言学结构。