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June 11, 2026Open Access

Child’s play: A computational method for generating child-specific valence norms

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KHKatharina G. HugentoblerAHAstrid HaaseJLJana Lüdtke

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Overview

Randomized trial explores computational methods to estimate word norms in children, suggesting effective approaches for emotional understanding.

Key Points

  • This research aims to develop computational methods for estimating child-specific word valence norms.
  • Explored computational techniques using valence as a focus.
  • Correlated estimates with adult and child valence ratings in a lexical decision task.
  • Analyzed the impact of different semantic spaces and label word selections on valence computations.
  • Norms from adult vector space models correlated with children's ratings at r=.71, adults at r=.74.
  • Norms derived from the chosen parameters best predicted valence effects in children and adults.
  • A new set of children's valence ratings for 535 German words is provided.

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Hugentobler et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2a51d780c8f91e7f39df78https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-52409
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