The Racially Diverse Affective Expression (RADIATE) Face Stimulus Set

Overview

Journal Psychiatry Res

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2018 Jun 19

PMID 29910020

Citations 50

Authors

May I Conley

Danielle V Dellarco

Estee Rubien-Thomas

Alexandra O Cohen

Alessandra Cervera

Nim Tottenham

B J Casey

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Abstract

Faces are often used in psychological and neuroimaging research to assess perceptual and emotional processes. Most available stimulus sets, however, represent minimal diversity in both race and ethnicity, which may confound understanding of these processes in diverse/racially heterogeneous samples. Having a diverse stimulus set of faces and emotional expressions could mitigate these biases and may also be useful in research that specifically examines the effects of race and ethnicity on perceptual, emotional and social processes. The racially diverse affective expression (RADIATE) face stimulus set is designed to provide an open-access set of 1,721 facial expressions of Black, White, Hispanic and Asian adult models. Moreover, the diversity of this stimulus set reflects census data showing a change in demographics in the United States from a white majority to a nonwhite majority by 2020. Psychometric results are provided describing the initial validity and reliability of the stimuli based on judgments of the emotional expressions.

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