The Child Affective Facial Expression (CAFE) set: validity and reliability from untrained adults

Emotional development is one of the largest and most productive areas of psychological research. For decades, researchers have been fascinated by how humans respond to, detect, and interpret emotional facial expressions. Much of the research in this area has relied on controlled stimulus sets of adults posing various facial expressions. Here we introduce a new stimulus set of emotional facial expressions into the domain of research on emotional development—The Child Affective Facial Expression set (CAFE). The CAFE set features photographs of a racially and ethnically diverse group of 2- to 8-year-old children posing for six emotional facial expressions—angry, fearful, sad, happy, surprised, and disgusted—and a neutral face. In the current work, we describe the set and report validity and reliability data on the set from 100 untrained adult participants.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Frontiers in Psychology

• Publication date

  2014-12-09

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01532PMID 25610415PMCID 4285011
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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