Part One: Survey Instructions :

This survey consists of three parts. The first part will provide you with instructions and examples to fill out the survey.
In part two, you will be asked to fill out some demographic questions that are going to be used for remuneration purposes and will remain confidential.
In part three, you will be asked to rate 26 news headlines that are collected from different news resources in time between 2000-2014.

• Each of the headlines describes at least one event (or a fact) and each event has actor (subject), behaviour (verb), and object.
• Rate your emotions toward the event in general as well as toward the actor, behaviour, and object with respect to the context in which they appear.
• Please do the rating in three stages:
  1. First, rate your emotions as a reader toward the event in general.
     • If the sentence contains sequence of events, rate your emotion toward the event in a cumulative manner.
       For example, in rating a sentence like 'A woman set her boyfriend's car on fire after he cheated on her', you should take in your consideration the previous event(cheated on her).
  2. Second, find the (actor AC., behaviour B, and object O) triple by selecting the word from the drop-down list.
     • If the sentence contains multiple behaviours, actors, and/or objects choose the main verb, actor and/or object in the sentence that describes the significant event.
       For example, in the above example the main event is 'setting the car on fire.'
     • Some statements might not have or only include implicit actor or/and object. In this case, choose either 'blank' or 'implicit' from the list.
       For example, the subject is implicit in 'the court appeal was denied' while in 'no one helped John' there is no subject.
       Note: you don't have to enter an emotion rating for the 'blank' actor or object (you can choose not applicable n/a in this case), but you still need to provide an emotion rating for the implicit actor or object.
  3. Then, determine your emotions as a reader toward each of the event's components.
     • Emotions are defined as sentiments towards an object in terms of Evaluation (E) measures good vs. bad, Potency (P) measures strong vs. weak, and activity (A) measures active vs. inactive on a scale from -4 to +4.
       For example, a policeman would normally be considered quite strong. Whereas a child would be considered quite weak.
       An example for a negative evaluation would be criminals as they are considered to be quite bad. Whereas a mother would be considered to be quite good.
       An example for active vs. inactive would be a child and a senior in which a child would be considered quite active while a senior would be considered quite inactive.
     
     

     Evaluation:	Bad/Awful										Good/Nice
     Potency:	Powerless/Weak	____|____	____|____	____|____	____|____	____|____	____|____	____|____	____|____	____|____	Powerful/Strong
     Activity:	Inactive/Quiet										Active/Lively
     		-4	-3	-2	-1	0	+1	+2	+3	+4
     		Infinitely	Extremely	Quite	Slightly	Neutral	Slightly	Quite	Extremely	Infinitely

     
     


• Here's an example of the rating :

Sentence	Sentiment toward event	Actor	Sentiment toward Actor	Behaviour	Sentiment toward behaviour	Object	Sentiment toward Object
A criminal killed two policemen	E=-3.0  P=1.8  A=1.4	Criminal	E=-2.10  P=0.06  A=0.54	Killed	E=-3.33  P=1.32  A=0.65	Policemen	E=1.23  P=1.87  A=0.78



• Note: in this example the rating for subject and object are not what you are generally feeling towards criminals or policemen but towards these particular policemen and this particular criminal.

Part Tow: Demographic Information:

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