Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond
Created: January 15, 2014
Last Modified: January 05, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond
Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC
This script implements the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT) as described in Quirin et al (2009).
The IPANAT assesses a person's positive and negative affects not via an (explicit) self-report assessment tools (e.g. "How are you feeling?") but more indirectly by asking people to use positive and negative adjectives to describe nonsense words. This approach helps in assessessing people's emotions free from self-reporting biases.
Quirin, M., Miguel Kaze´n, M., & Kuhl, J. (2009). When Nonsense Sounds Happy or Helpless: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 500–516.
3 minutes
Participants are presented 6 surveyPages for 6 nonsense words. Each surveyPage contains 6 Likert Scales: 3 scales to rate how well positive adjectives describe the current nonsense word and 3 scales to rate how well negative adjectives desribe the current nonsense word.
• The nonsense words used 1. SAFME 2. VIKES 3. TUNBA 4. TALEB 5. BELNI 6. SUKOV
• order of the adjectives is the same for all nonsense words: pos1 -> neg1 -> pos2 -> neg2 -> pos3 -> neg3
Instructions are original and are presented via an html page
File Name: ipanat_summary*.iqdat
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| inquisit.version | Inquisit version number |
| computer.platform | Device platform: win | mac |ios | android |
| computer.touch | 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities |
| computer.hasKeyboard | 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected |
| startDate | Date the session was run |
| startTime | Time the session was run |
| subjectId | Participant ID |
| groupId | Group number |
| sessionId | Session number |
| elapsedTime | Session duration in ms |
| completed | 0 = Test was not completed 1 = Test was completed |
| meanPA | Mean rating for the Positive adjectives (Range: 1-4) => the higher the mean rating the more participant judged positive adjectives to 'describe' the nonsense words. |
| meanNA | Mean rating for the Negative adjectives (Range: 1-4) => the higher the mean rating the more participant judged negative adjectives to 'describe' the nonsense words. |
| meanPA1 | Mean rating for Positive adjective1 (here: happy) |
| meanPA2 | Mean rating for Positive adjective2 (here: energetic) |
| meanPA3 | Mean rating for Positive adjective3 (here: cheerful) |
| meanNA1 | Mean rating for Negative adjective1 (here: helpless) |
| meanNA2 | Mean rating for Negative adjective2 (here: tense) |
| meanNA3 | Mean rating for Negative adjective3 (here: inhibited) |
File Name: ipanat.iqdat
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| date | Date the session was run |
| time | Time the session was run |
| subject | Participant ID |
| group | Group number |
| session | Session number |
| build | Inquisit version number |
| q*_response | Response given (in assigned values) Scale: 1 (doesn't fit at all) - 4 (fits very well) No reversed scored questions |
| q*_latency | How much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveyPage was visited) |