Pretest of images associated with the expertise dimension

Filipe Loureiro, Joana Mello

Abstract


In this paper we present norms concerning the perceived association that two sets of stimuli (photos of people and photos of objects) establish with the concept of expertise[1]. Participants were presented with a set of words associated to the expertise dimension and subsequently asked to judge each stimulus on how much it was related with the expertise dimension on a 7-point scale (1 - Not at all related; 7 - Very related). The interpretation of means’ confidence intervals allowed us to distinguish between images highly related with the expertise dimension and images highly unrelated with this dimension.  Summarized results are presented and photos made available to support future research requiring stimuli associated with the expertise dimension.


[1] The images pretested in this work are available in the archive of the psychology lab of ISPA-Instituto Universitário. Email: labpsicologia@ispa.pt


Keywords


norms; expertise; people; objects

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