The Geneva affective picture database (GAPED): A new 730-picture database focusing on valence and normative significance

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 468-477

  Dan Glauser, Elise S ^a,b   Scherer, Klaus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion induction; Normative significance; Picture database; Snakes; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; VISION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956272191     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0064-1     Document Type: Article

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