The Racially Diverse Affective Expression (RADIATE) Face Stimulus Set

Census data (2010, 2014) show a changing racial and ethnic distribution in the United States (U.S.) from a White, non-Hispanic Caucasian majority to a non-White majority (Colby and Ortman, 2014). It is predicted that by 2020, more than half of the children in the U.S. will be part of a non-White race or ethnic group. Since faces play a major role in communicating emotional and social information, facial expressions are often used as stimuli in psychological research. The number of studies published on face processing has more than tripled over the past decade from 5,000 (Tottenham et al., 2009) to over 15,000 based on a simple PubMed (2017) search of the terms: “face perception”, “face processing”, and “face expression”.

Source: Psychiatry Research - May 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: May I. Conley, Danielle V. Dellarco, Estee Rubien-Thomas, Alexandra O. Cohen, Alessandra Cervera, Nim Tottenham, BJ Casey Source Type: research