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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Psychological Tests > Personality Tests > Semantic Differential
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psycholinguistics > Semantic Differential
Psychological Phenomena > Psycholinguistics > Semantic Differential
... > Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Communication > Language > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Semantic Differential
... > Information Science > Communication > Language > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Semantic Differential

Preferred term

Semantic Differential  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Differential, Semantic
  • Differentials, Semantic
  • Semantic Differentials

Note

  • a type of psychological test: do not confuse with SEMANTICS

Scope note

  • Analysis of word concepts by the association of polar adjectives, e.g., good-bad, with the concept, father. The adjectives are usually scaled in 7 steps. The subject's placement of the concept on the adjectival scale indicates the connotative meaning of the concept.

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