General Instructions

• Only attempt HITs if you are a fluent speaker of English
• Your responses are confidential. Any publication based on these responses will not include your specific responses, only aggregate information from many individuals. We will not ask any information that can be used to identify who you are.

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Task Instructions

Words are associated with different degrees of emotion. For example, most people will agree that the word condemn is associated with a greater degree of anger (or more anger) than the word annoyed. The goal of this task is to determine the degrees of anger associated with words. Since it is hard to give a numerical score indicating the degree of anger, we will give you four different words and ask you to indicate to us

• the word that is associated with the MOST anger
• the word that is associated with the LEAST anger

A rule of thumb that may be helpful is that a word associated with more anger tends to occur in many angry sentences, whereas a word associated with less anger tends to occur in fewer angry sentences.

See an example