This list contains ratings of valence, arousal, imageability, dominance and potency for German words. The study includes terms from the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) list (Bradley and Lang 1999) as well as the Berlin Affective Word List (BAWL) (Vo et al. 2009). Valence and imageability were rated on 7-point scales while potency, dominance and arousal for words in the ANEW list were rated on a 9-point scale. Arousal for words in the BAWL was rated on a 5-point scale. The study contains additional variables, such as data on word frequency, grammatical class, number of letters, number of syllables, and number of orthographic neighbors, which come from other studies and were therefore not included in the data set here.