RT Journal Article
T1 Validation of the Edited Tromsø Infant Faces Database (E-TIF): A study on differences in the processing of children's emotional expressions
A1 Duque, Almudena
A1 Picado, Gonzalo
A1 Salgado, Gloria
A1 Salgado, Alfonso
A1 Palacios, Beatriz
A1 Chaves Vélez, Covadonga
AB Images of emotional facial expressions are often used in emotion research, which has promoted the development of different databases. However, most of these standardized sets of images do not include images from infants under 2 years of age, which is relevant for psychology research, especially for perinatal psychology. The present study aims to validate the edited version of the Tromsø Infant Faces Database (E-TIF) in a large sample of participants. The original set of 119 pictures was edited. The pictures were cropped to remove nonrelevant information, fitted in an oval window, and converted to grayscale. Four hundred and eighty participants (72.9% women) took part in the study, rating the images on five dimensions: depicted emotion, clarity, intensity, valence, and genuineness. Valence scores were useful for discriminating between positive, negative, and neutral facial expressions. Results revealed that women were more accurate at recognizing emotions in children. Regarding parental status, parents, in comparison with nonparents, rated neutral expressions as more intense and genuine. They also rated sad, angry, disgusted, and fearful faces as less negative, and happy expressions as less positive. The editing and validation of the E-TIF database offers a useful tool for basic and experimental research in psychology
PB Springer
SN 1554-3528
YR 2023
FD 2023-06-27
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104166
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104166
LA eng
NO Duque, A., Picado, G., Salgado, G., Salgado, A., Palacios, B., & Chaves, C. (2023). Validation of the Edited Tromsø Infant Faces Database (E-TIF): A study on differences in the processing of children's emotional expressions. Behavior Research Methods 56, 2507–2518. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02163-9
NO 2023 Acuerdos transformativos CRUE
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 jun 2025