The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants

• Published in: Psychiatry research Vol. 168; no. 3; pp. 242 - 249
• Main Authors: Tottenham, Nim, Tanaka, James W, Leon, Andrew C, McCarry, Thomas, Nurse, Marcella, Hare, Todd A, Marcus, David J, Westerlund, Alissa, Casey, BJ, Nelson, Charles
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ireland Ltd 15.08.2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Emotion; Emotions - physiology; Expression; Face; Facial Expression; Humans; Judgment - physiology; Medical sciences; Multiracial; Neuropsychological Tests; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Photic Stimulation; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reaction Time; Reliability; Reproducibility of Results; Stimulus set; Techniques and methods; Validity; Young Adult; Validity; Multiracial; Expression; Emotion; Face; Reliability; Stimulus set; Human; Affect affectivity; Emotional expression; Psychometrics; Emotion emotionality; Test reliability; Ethnic group; Test validation; Visual stimulus; Race; Facial expression; Judgment

Abstract A set of face stimuli called the NimStim Set of Facial Expressions is described. The goal in creating this set was to provide facial expressions that untrained individuals, characteristic of research participants, would recognize. This set is large in number, multiracial, and available to t...