Development and Approbation of The Russian Database of Neutral and Smiling Female Faces (RuNeS Faces)

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Abstract

The article presents a database of women’s faces for research in the field of social perception. Each of 55 models was photographed full-face under four conditions: with a neutral or smiling face with hair up or down. The database includes the results of facial morphometry (relative positions of homologous points), expert ratings of appearance style, scores of perceived intelligence and attractiveness. The peculiarity of the database is that, unlike the others, we preserved the natural style featured on the models: clothes, jewelry, and makeup. The database was approbated in the study of physiognomic and appearance style predictors of perceived intelligence and attractiveness. It expands the variety of stimulus images available for researchers and can be used in different studies of social perception.

General Information

Keywords: social perception, face perception, facial morphometry, image database, attractiveness, perceived intelligence

Journal rubric: Psychology of States

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2018110203

For citation: Moroshkina N.V., Ivanchei I.I., Tikhonov R.V., Karpov A.D., Ovchinnikova I.V. Development and Approbation of The Russian Database of Neutral and Smiling Female Faces (RuNeS Faces). Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2018. Vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 34–49. DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2018110203. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Nadezhda V. Moroshkina, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher, Cognitive Research Laboratory, St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia, e-mail: moroshkina.n@gmail.com

Ivan I. Ivanchei, PhD in Psychology, Researcher of the Laboratory of Cognitive Research, Department of Psychology, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Researcher of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium), Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-8575, e-mail: i.ivanchei@spbu.ru

Roman V. Tikhonov, PhD in Psychology, Junior Researcher, Laboratory for Cognitive Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science, HSE University — Saint Petersburg, St.Petersburg, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1884-1903, e-mail: roman.tikhonov@me.com

Anatoly D. Karpov, Junior Research Associate, Department of General Psychology, Saint-Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia, e-mail: anatoly1804@gmail.com

Irina V. Ovchinnikova, Junior Research Fellow, Laboratory of Translational Sciences of Human Development, Saint-Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5950-5765, e-mail: ovchinir@gmail.com

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