title: Development and validation of an Argentine set of facial expressions of emotion.
abstract: Pictures of facial expressions of emotion are used in a wide range of experiments. The last decade has seen an increase in the number of studies presenting local sets of emotion stimuli. However, only a few existing sets contain pictures of Latin Americans, despite the growing attention emotion research is receiving in this region. Here we present the development and validation of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Expresiones de Emociones Faciales (UNCEEF), a Facial Action Coding System (FACS)-verified set of pictures of Argentineans expressing the six basic emotions, plus neutral expressions. FACS scores, recognition rates, Hu scores, and discrimination indices are reported. Evidence of convergent validity was obtained using the Pictures of Facial Affect in an Argentine sample. However, recognition accuracy was greater for UNCEEF. The importance of local sets of emotion pictures is discussed.
authors.affiliation: a Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology , National University of Córdoba , Cordoba , Argentina.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaiman
authors.affiliation: a Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology , National University of Córdoba , Cordoba , Argentina.
authors.forename: Mónica Anna
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.affiliation: a Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology , National University of Córdoba , Cordoba , Argentina.
authors.forename: Estefanía
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Caicedo
authors.affiliation: a Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology , National University of Córdoba , Cordoba , Argentina.
authors.forename: Germán Leandro
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Pereno
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001118:Argentina; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Argentina; FACS; Facial expressions of emotion; stimulus set; validation