Development and Validation of an Argentine set of Facial Expressions of Emotion en la Revista Cognition & Emotion

VAIMAN, MARCELO; WAGNER, MÓNICA; CAICEDO, ESTEFANÍA; PERENO, GERMÁN LEANDRO

Cognition & Emotion

Taylor & Francis Group

Año: 2015 p. 1 - 12

Pictures of facial expressions of emotion are used in a wide range of experiments. Thelast decade has seen an increase in the number of studies presenting local sets ofemotion stimuli. However, only a few existing sets contain pictures of LatinAmericans, despite the growing attention emotion research is receiving in thisregion. Here we present the development and validation of the UniversidadNacional de Cordoba, Expresiones de Emociones Faciales (UNCEEF), a Facial ActionCoding System (FACS)-verified set of pictures of Argentineans expressing the sixbasic emotions, plus neutral expressions. FACS scores, recognition rates, Hu scores,and discrimination indices are reported. Evidence of convergent validity wasobtained using the Pictures of Facial Affect in an Argentine sample. However,recognition accuracy was greater for UNCEEF. The importance of local sets ofemotion pictures is discussed.