Establishing emotionality norms for verbal material in Portuguese is a relevant methodological contribution to the emergent research on emotion. The present study aimed at obtaining measures of emotionality for the Brazilian version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. A total of 516 undergraduate students rated 44 lists of words associated by semantics and their critical words with respect to valence and arousal. The reliability analysis of the emotionality norms showed high correlations. The results indicate the adequacy of using the Brazilian version of the DRM paradigm for the study of emotion and cognition.
norms; emotion; arousal; valence; word lists
