Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures: A validation study of facial display photographs.
Emotional facial expressions play a critical role in theories of emotion and figure prominently in research on almost every aspect of emotion. This article provides a background for a new database of basic emotional expressions. The goal in creating this set was to provide high quality photographs o...
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| author | Michal eOlszanowski Grzegorz ePochwatko Krzysztof eKuklinski Michal eScibor-Rylski Peter eLewinski Rafal Krzysztof Ohme |
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| description | Emotional facial expressions play a critical role in theories of emotion and figure prominently in research on almost every aspect of emotion. This article provides a background for a new database of basic emotional expressions. The goal in creating this set was to provide high quality photographs of genuine facial expressions. Thus, after proper training, participants were inclined to express felt emotions. The novel approach taken in this study was also used to establish whether a given expression was perceived as intended by untrained judges. The judgment task for perceivers was designed to be sensitive to subtle changes in meaning caused by the way an emotional display was evoked and expressed. Consequently, this allowed us to measure the purity and intensity of emotional displays, which are parameters that validation methods used by other researchers do not capture. The final set is comprised of those pictures that received the highest recognition marks (e.g. accuracy with intended display) from independent judges, totaling 210 high quality photographs of 30 individuals. Descriptions of the accuracy, intensity, and purity of displayed emotion as well as FACS AU’s codes are provided for each picture. Given the unique methodology applied to gathering and validating this set of pictures, it may be a useful tool for research using face stimuli. The Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures (WSEFEP) is freely accessible to the scientific community for noncommercial use by request at www.emotional-face.org. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9a2b82907a143d7b556764b3fbc40a22022-12-22T00:31:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-01-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.01516121984Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures: A validation study of facial display photographs.Michal eOlszanowski0Grzegorz ePochwatko1Krzysztof eKuklinski2Michal eScibor-Rylski3Peter eLewinski4Rafal Krzysztof Ohme5University of Social Sciences & HumanitiesInstitute of Psychology, Polish Academy of ScienceUniversity of Social Sciences & HumanitiesUniversity of Social Sciences & HumanitiesUniversity of AmsterdamUniversity of Social Sciences & HumanitiesEmotional facial expressions play a critical role in theories of emotion and figure prominently in research on almost every aspect of emotion. This article provides a background for a new database of basic emotional expressions. The goal in creating this set was to provide high quality photographs of genuine facial expressions. Thus, after proper training, participants were inclined to express felt emotions. The novel approach taken in this study was also used to establish whether a given expression was perceived as intended by untrained judges. The judgment task for perceivers was designed to be sensitive to subtle changes in meaning caused by the way an emotional display was evoked and expressed. Consequently, this allowed us to measure the purity and intensity of emotional displays, which are parameters that validation methods used by other researchers do not capture. The final set is comprised of those pictures that received the highest recognition marks (e.g. accuracy with intended display) from independent judges, totaling 210 high quality photographs of 30 individuals. Descriptions of the accuracy, intensity, and purity of displayed emotion as well as FACS AU’s codes are provided for each picture. Given the unique methodology applied to gathering and validating this set of pictures, it may be a useful tool for research using face stimuli. The Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures (WSEFEP) is freely accessible to the scientific community for noncommercial use by request at www.emotional-face.org.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01516/fullemotionface perceptionemotion recognitionValidationfacial expression recognitionfacial expressions of emotion |
| spellingShingle | Michal eOlszanowski Grzegorz ePochwatko Krzysztof eKuklinski Michal eScibor-Rylski Peter eLewinski Rafal Krzysztof Ohme Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures: A validation study of facial display photographs. Frontiers in Psychology emotion face perception emotion recognition Validation facial expression recognition facial expressions of emotion |
| title | Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures: A validation study of facial display photographs. |
| title_full | Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures: A validation study of facial display photographs. |
| title_fullStr | Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures: A validation study of facial display photographs. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures: A validation study of facial display photographs. |
| title_short | Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures: A validation study of facial display photographs. |
| title_sort | warsaw set of emotional facial expression pictures a validation study of facial display photographs |
| topic | emotion face perception emotion recognition Validation facial expression recognition facial expressions of emotion |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01516/full |
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