Category norms: An updated and expanded version of the Battig and Montague (1969) norms☆
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Participants
In order to sample from possibly diverse sets of people, participants were selected from three universities in different regions of the United States: University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB), University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP), and University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). At least 300 participants were presented with each category at UCB, and at least 150 participants were presented with each category at UMCP and UNCG, for a total of at least 600 participants per category (M
Results
The response data for each category are presented in the Appendix. All intelligible responses were included in the analyses (less than 1% of the responses were unintelligible and were removed), and responses that were misspelled (e.g., Afganistan) were included under a response spelled correctly (e.g., Afghanistan). The responses were then tallied separately for each location.
The Appendix contains separate tables for the 70 categories, organized in a manner similar to the 1969 norms. However,
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This research was funded, in part, by a post-doctoral fellowship from the University of Maryland Department of Psychology, National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship, Army Research Institute Contract DASW01-99-K-0002 (Alice F. Healy, principal investigator), and Army Research Office Grant DAAG55-98-1-0214 (Alice Healy, principal investigator). We gratefully acknowledge Robin Abelson (University of Maryland) for her extensive assistance hand-scoring much of the raw data, compiling the data into a form useable for the manuscript, and for generating the inter-generational correlations. We also thank Matthew Brallier (University of North Carolina), Rosemary Brumbelow (University of Maryland), John Crews (University of North Carolina), Anita Gray (University of Colorado), Greg Hofer (University of Colorado), and Michael Serra (University of North Carolina) for their assistance with data collection.