ISSN : 1226-9654
This is a taxonomic study of the vocabulary of affects in Korea. Many study in other cultures showed that affects can be contrracted into 2-9 basic emotions and suggested some criteria of affective attributes. In this study, subjects were asked to rate their mood and korean poems through 72 five-point unipolar scale of afectve terms, which have been extracted and filtered in pre-test. The surveyed data was analyzed by factor analysis and cluster analysis, and we could see results supporting for Ekman's and Weiner's suggestions.