Warsaw set of emotional facial expression pictures: a validation study of facial display photographs
Authors:
- Michał Olszanowski,
- Grzegorz Pochwatko,
- Krzysztof Kukliński,
- Michał Ścibor-Rylski,
- Peter Lewinski,
- Rafał Ohme
Abstract
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 non-commercial use by request at http://www.emotional-face.org.
- Record ID
- IMPORT-ARTICLE-00016042
- Author
- Journal series
- Frontiers in Psychology, ISSN 1664-1078
- Issue year
- 2015
- Vol
- 5
- No
- 1516
- Pages
- 1-8
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- facial expressions of emotion, facial expression recognition, basic emotions, emotion, validation, pictures, face perception, emotion recognition
- ASJC Classification
- DOI
- DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01516 opening in a new tab
- URL
- http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01516/abstract opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
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- File: 1
- fpsyg-05-01516.pdf
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- File: 2
- warsaw set_nadbitka.pdf
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- Additional file
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- File: 1
- BROWN_IR-ADV5255_16_0107_001-13.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 35
- Publication indicators
- : 2015 = 0.942; : 2015 = 2.463 (2) - 2015=2.885 (5); = 170
- Citation count
- 170
- Additional fields
- Dorobek Naukowy - Preview URL: http://dn.swps.edu.pl/Podglad.aspx?WpisID=16042
- Dorobek Naukowy - Approve URL: http://dn.swps.edu.pl/Biuro/ZatwierdzanieWpisu.aspx?WpisID=16042
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- http://192.168.13.97/info/article/IMPORT-ARTICLE-00016042/
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