The Belfast Induced Natural Emotion Database

For many years psychological research on facial expression of emotion has relied heavily on a recognition paradigm based on posed static photographs. There is growing evidence that there may be fundamental differences between the expressions depicted in such stimuli and the emotional expressions pre...

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Published inIEEE transactions on affective computing Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 32 - 41
Main Authors Sneddon, I., McRorie, M., McKeown, G., Hanratty, J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.2012
Subjects
affective annotation
Context
Decoding
emotion induction
Emotion recognition
emotional corpora
Encoding
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Natural emotion
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ISSN1949-3045
1949-3045
DOI10.1109/T-AFFC.2011.26

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Summary:For many years psychological research on facial expression of emotion has relied heavily on a recognition paradigm based on posed static photographs. There is growing evidence that there may be fundamental differences between the expressions depicted in such stimuli and the emotional expressions present in everyday life. Affective computing, with its pragmatic emphasis on realism, needs examples of natural emotion. This paper describes a unique database containing recordings of mild to moderate emotionally colored responses to a series of laboratory-based emotion induction tasks. The recordings are accompanied by information on self-report of emotion and intensity, continuous trace-style ratings of valence and intensity, the sex of the participant, the sex of the experimenter, the active or passive nature of the induction task, and it gives researchers the opportunity to compare expressions from people from more than one culture.
ISSN:1949-3045
1949-3045
DOI:10.1109/T-AFFC.2011.26