Validation of the Child Affective Facial Expressions Set (CAFE)

儿童情感面部表情集 (CAFE) 的验证

• 批准号: 1247590
• 负责人: Vanessa LoBue
• 金额: $ 27.45万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University Newark
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1247590&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Validation; Child; Affective; Facial; Expressions

Emotional facial expressions are very special for us as humans. We might see hundreds of faces in the course of a day and millions in the course of a lifetime. They can tell us when a situation is safe or risky, and they can give us important information about how to behave in everyday social interactions. Many researchers interested in studying human emotions rely on sets of photographs of adults posing the various emotional facial expressions. Although these sets provide us with a useful tool for studying emotions, they are limited in that they generally only include photographs of one specific demographic -- namely Caucasian adults. The current proposal introduces a brand new set of emotional facial expressions -- The Child Affective Facial Expression set (CAFE). The CAFE set includes photographs of 190 preschool children posing for 6 basic emotions -- sadness, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, and fear -- plus a neutral expression. The set is also racially and ethnically diverse, featuring Caucasian, African American, Asian, Latino (Hispanic), and South Asian (Indian / Bangladeshi / Pakistani) children. The proposed experiments are aimed at validating this set so that it can be disseminated to the greater research community. In two experiments, 4-5-, 6-7-, 8-9- and 10-11-year-old children and a group of adults will be asked to identify each facial expression in the set twice. From these ratings a validity score (the accuracy of each participant) and a reliability score (the consistency of each participant between the two ratings) will be calculated for each facial expression. Once the data have been collected, the CAFE set will be made available for free to the scientific community to use as a research tool. Given the prominence of research on emotional facial expressions, this stimulus set will promote scientific infrastructure and could contribute to several domains of psychological research, including developmental, social, cognitive, and clinical. Collectively the findings will result in a controlled, validated stimulus set of preschool-aged children making a variety of emotional facial expressions. Ultimately, research using this set could provide us with important insights into how we come to understand human emotions.

情感面部表情对我们来说很特别。在一天的过程中，我们可能会看到数百张面孔，一生中的数百万个面孔。他们可以告诉我们情况何时安全或冒险，他们可以为我们提供有关如何在日常社交互动中行事的重要信息。许多有兴趣研究人类情绪的研究人员依靠成年人的照片集。尽管这些集合为我们提供了研究情绪的有用工具，但它们的限制是因为它们通常只包括一个特定人群的照片，即高加索成年人。当前的建议介绍了一套全新的情感面部表情 - 儿童情感面部表情集（CAFE）。咖啡馆的餐厅包括190名学龄前儿童的照片，这些孩子摆出了6种基本情感 - 悲伤，幸福，惊喜，愤怒，厌恶和恐惧 - 加上中立的表达。该场景在种族和种族上也是多样的，有高加索人，非裔美国人，亚洲人，拉丁裔（西班牙裔）和南亚（印度 /孟加拉国 /巴基斯坦）儿童。提出的实验旨在验证该集合，以便将其传播到更大的研究社区。在两个实验中，将要求4-5-，6-7-，8-9和10-11岁的儿童以及一组成年人两次识别该集合中的每个面部表情。从这些评分中，将计算每个面部表达式的有效性评分（每个参与者的精度）和可靠性得分（两个评分之间的每个参与者的一致性）。收集数据后，将免费提供咖啡馆，科学界可以用作研究工具。鉴于对情感面部表情的研究的突出，这种刺激集将促进科学基础设施，并可能有助于多个心理学研究领域，包括发展，社会，认知和临床。总的来说，这些发现将导致一组经过验证的学龄前儿童的刺激，使各种情感面部表情产生各种情感表情。最终，使用此集合的研究可以为我们提供有关我们如何理解人类情感的重要见解。