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

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 242-249

  Tottenham, Nim ^a   Tanaka, James W ^b   Leon, Andrew C ^a   McCarry, Thomas ^a   Nurse, Marcella ^a   Hare, Todd A ^a   Marcus, David J ^c   Westerlund, Alissa ^d   Casey, BJ ^a   Nelson, Charles ^d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Expression; Face; Multiracial; Reliability; Stimulus set; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650479583     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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