title: The MR2: A multi-racial, mega-resolution database of facial stimuli.
abstract: Faces impart exhaustive information about their bearers, and are widely used as stimuli in psychological research. Yet many extant facial stimulus sets have substantially less detail than faces encountered in real life. In this paper, we describe a new database of facial stimuli, the Multi-Racial Mega-Resolution database (MR2). The MR2 includes 74 extremely high resolution images of European, African, and East Asian faces. This database provides a high-quality, diverse, naturalistic, and well-controlled facial image set for use in research. The MR2 is available under a Creative Commons license, and may be accessed online.
authors: Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. ns141@duke.edu.|Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. ns141@duke.edu.
authors: Nina
authors: N
authors: Strohminger
authors: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: Kurt
authors: K
authors: Gray
authors: Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
authors: Vladimir
authors: V
authors: Chituc
authors: Department of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Heffner
authors: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: Chelsea
authors: C
authors: Schein
authors: Titus Brooks Heagins Photography, Durham, NC, USA.
authors: Titus Brooks
authors: TB
authors: Heagins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D044466:Asian People; D044383:Black People; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005006:Ethnicity; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D044465:White People
keywords: Faces; Psychological instruments