Validation of the P1vital® Faces Set for Use as Stimuli in Tests of Facial Emotion Recognition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Negative bias in facial emotion recognition is a well-established concept in mental disorders such as depression. However, existing face sets of emotion recognition tests may be of limited use in international research, which could benefit from more contemporary and diverse alternatives. Here, we developed and provide initial validation for the P1vital® Affective Faces set (PAFs) as a contemporary alternative to the widely-used Pictures of Facial Affect (PoFA).

Methods

The PAFs was constructed of 133 color photographs of facial expressions of ethnically-diverse trained actors and compared with the PoFA, comprised of 110 black and white photographs of facial expressions of generally Caucasian actors. Sixty-one recruits were asked to classify faces from both sets ov

SUBMITTER: Romano JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8874121 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature