Not exact matches
Our
approach is to make use of what psychologists have done already in analysing emotions, in particular a
psycholinguistic dictionary called ANEW (Affective Norms of English Words), which provides a way of interpreting and analysing the emotional content of words on a number of dimensions.
«The authors did an amazing job of developing a standardized
approach» to test these ideas, says Katherine Cronin, a primate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when whole language first became popular, its proponents called it «
psycholinguistics» in order to suggest that their favored
approach had an unassailably scientific basis.