Figure 2

Distributions of word emotions weighted by the frequency of word usage. (left panel) Distributions of reported valence values for words in English (top panel, lexicon: [7], 1,034 entries), German (middle panel, lexicon: [8], 2,902 entries), and Spanish (bottom panel, lexicon: [9], 1,034 entries), normalized by the size of the lexica. Average valence (median) 0.048 (0.095) for English, 0.021 (0.067) for German, and −0.065 (−0.006) for Spanish. (right panel) Normalized distributions of reported valence values weighted by the frequency of word usage, obtained from the same lexica. Average valence (median) 0.314 (0.375) for English, 0.200 (0.216) for German, and 0.238 (0.325) for Spanish. The dashed lines indicate the median. Inset numbers: ratio of positive and negative areas in the corresponding distributions.