Validation of the NIMH-ChEFS adolescent face stimulus set in an adolescent, parent, and health professional sample.

ABSTRACT: Attention to faces is a fundamental psychological process in humans, with atypical attention to faces noted across several clinical disorders. Although many clinical disorders onset in adolescence, there is a lack of well-validated stimulus sets containing adolescent faces available for experimental use. Further, the images comprising most available sets are not controlled for high- and low-level visual properties. Here, we present a cross-site validation of the National Institute of Mental Health Child Emotional Faces Picture Set (NIMH-ChEFS), comprised of 257 photographs of adolescent faces displaying angry, fearful, happy, sad, and neutral expressions. All of the direct facial images from the NIMH-ChEFS set were adjusted in terms of location of facial features and standardized for lumin

SUBMITTER: Coffman MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5103077 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature