Creation and validation of the Picture-Set of Young Children's Affective Facial Expressions (PSYCAFE).

ABSTRACT: The immediate detection and correct processing of affective facial expressions are one of the most important competences in social interaction and thus a main subject in emotion and affect research. Generally, studies in these research domains, use pictures of adults who display affective facial expressions as experimental stimuli. However, for studies investigating developmental psychology and attachment behaviour it is necessary to use age-matched stimuli, where it is children that display affective expressions. PSYCAFE represents a newly developed picture-set of children's faces. It includes reference portraits of girls and boys aged 4 to 6 years averaged digitally from different individual pictures, that were categorized to six basic affects (fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, anger an

SUBMITTER: Franz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8651117 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature